Mastodawn

As it is October 21st, you're going to be seeing a lot of posts about Back To The Future.

But I'm here to give you a warning! Doc Brown is *crap* at UI design. Please take no lessons in interface design from this charlatan.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2015/10/doc-brown-is-a-crap-ui-designer/

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Doc Brown is a Crap UI Designer

I'm incredibly disappointed with "Doctor" Emmett Brown. His forays into time-travel could have extremely profound consequences for the space/time continuum. Worse than that, his time machine has a crap user interface. In this clip from "Back To The Future" we get a brief glimpse at the controls for setting the destination date: Ok, we can forgive Brown for not sticking to ISO-8601 - that is…

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BattleBot23 Oct 21, 2023

@Edent This is heavy

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Pete Prodoehl 🍕Oct 21, 2023

@Edent Your blog post represents how I feel when I see explosive devices in films. I mean, have some pride in your work!

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Beko Pharm (deprecated)Oct 21, 2023

@Edent budget constraints and salvaged parts 🤷

Kinda like my home cockpit 😜

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Joshua A.C. Newman Oct 22, 2023

@Edent I built a triple low-frequency oscillator synthesizer module.

I didn’t label any of the knobs.

They all made sense to me when I built it.

Now I don’t know what they do

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requiem 🦫Oct 22, 2023

@Edent that’s industrial design, not user interface design.

You'll have to forgive the crudeness of his interface - he didn't have time to user-test it or build it to scale.

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VE7FIM Oct 22, 2023

@Edent

He has a *time machine*. ISO 8601 not being standardized yet is no excuse!

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Marc Etienne Oct 22, 2023

@Edent to be honest almost all cinema UI is crap, often on purpose. What the director wants is something that feels futuristic, but cannot actually be read. Or that looks good in that one camera shot. Set designers are under the gun to deliver on time and under budget, not good.