Comment by aenis
21 hours ago
Yes, you are right. All my power tools (from Makita, Milwuakee, Festool) have absolutely phenomenal UI - so there are still corners of industrial design where the dark patterns/attention grabbing product people haven't ventured. They should be brought back to car companies.
Power tools are getting Bluetooth now. I saw a Festool battery operated sander where you could set the settings for the light on it and more via the app on your phone.
And I bet they were let go, when they tried to cite why all this change to no-buttons, attention-grabbing was wrong.
Upper management loves the "but everyone else is doing it" mentality, even if their mom would smack them aside the head for such logic.
Reminds me of the Boeing story.