| > Do they value an audio plug over a clean dashboard? "Clean dashboard" is the apparent reason, but there is in fact no difficulty to have a clean dashboard with an audio plug, or put the plug in the gunbox. There is another reason behind it, an industry agreement, a friend working in this field evocated it in front of me. They just really do not care if it is convenient or not. Other examples: In supermarket, they put the water bottle packs near the end, because they do not want clients to come, buy a trolley of water, and go home. (It is like that in France, not sure in US) So everyone is extremely annoyed and has to put water packs over eggs, strawberries, clothes, and many other fragile stuff. Next example: we are told that files are "inconvenient and messy" and many UX guys swallowed it straight. But it is just a big lie. Files are badly needed in Apple products, and I heard some are uplownloading their pdf attachements through dropbox just to use them on their phone or tablets. Back to cars: I own a Suzuki minivan, very cheap, but in many way more confortable than my previous car (a WV Golf) just because the seat is higher on the road and the inside volume is much bigger. Real comfort is not made of leather and crafted door sounds (yes, cars door slping sound is crafted carefuly), it is made of room around the head and further view on the road. Back to the OP: treating your users properly is obviously good, but adding too much sweetener on error messages is not the way to treat them properly. |