Comment by viceconsole
3 days ago
Having actually worked with industrial machinery, the proper UI for this is 1) unimpeded view of machine and 2) big red physical emergency stop button.
If you're relying on focus stealing or popups or notifications to tell you when your equipment is on fire, you're doing it wrong.
Are you not aware that remote monitoring software exists?
Your option is also not mutually exclusive, you can have your red buttons for local workers. Is redundancy not "proper UI"?
(I'm amazed how people stubbornly refuse to imagine the most trivial of use cases in this discussion.)