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Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards

21 points • by leephillips • today at 6:49 PM • 4 comments • view on HN

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Aardwolf • today at 10:21 PM

> Don’t you just want to rotate it, no matter what it does?

A grandparent's house had light switches that looked kind of like this but black (bakelite). And they are very satisfying, a good amount of resistance while rotating, then click.

DocJade • today at 8:01 PM

There's really so much physicality to interacting with objects that we've lost as we switch to more and more touch screens and capacitive buttons. Also the reassuring "thunk" of a nice chunky button to confirm you've pressed it is just so important to user confidence

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