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I design Graphical User Interfaces (GUI’s) for control systems in power generation and distribution as well as water production and treatment. Operators stare at my screens for 12 hour shifts. I obsess over information displays. There is advantage to negative space in controls design to avoid overwhelming the information presentation. Most important information should be clearly shown with little noise in the background. Redundant speed displays use precious space and adds to the clutter.You guys spend to much time staring at the dash.
The use of two close blues for the digital speed-o and tach both barely indistinguishable becomes useless movement rather than real data at a glance. I get what they were after, it just doesn’t nail it. It’s not horrible to look at, it just fails to convey a lot of data quickly and successfully.
so you are spot on. The average person spends too much time looking at the display. At a glance control interfaces are a stroke of genius by the people that design them.
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