[aenis]

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.

[b112]

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.

[mixmastamyk]

Reminds me of the Boeing story.

[spockz]

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.