My partner and I have a few new monitors, and some older ones. The new ones all seem to have the problem that the buttons are not responsive.
Often, if the monitor doesn’t detect a signal, you just can’t enter the menu and the monitor turns off. Which becomes annoying when you are trying to change the inout to something that is putting out signal.
On the older monitors, the menus and buttons seem wholly divorced from the monitors state beyond being on or off. You change inputs and the little blue menu doesn’t even blink.
So what changed technically speaking? I would imagine the newer monitors have faster micro controllers. Is there some standard everyone uses now that sucks? Or have I just gotten unlucky and many modern monitors have more responsive buttons?
The lack of tactility is a huge problem for me. At first they made the buttons touch sensitive but kept raised features to help find them non-visually. Now they only have printed labels.
Somewhat related, the award for terrible user interface has to go to the water/ice dispenser on my fridge. It used to be that there were separate dispensers for water and ice, with buttons to select between crushed and cubed ice. Then they started making one dispenser with buttons to select water, cubed, and crushed. Now they’ve made a singular non tactile button with the only indication of the dispenser’s state being a light over an icon. But it gets worse, the water/cubed/crushed icons are positioned in such a way that you THINK they’re separate touch-sensitive surfaces, and you set the desired state by pressing the icon, or in my case, the tactilely undifferentiated area where the icon is located. But no, the icons are just there to show you the state of the dispenser and there’s just one button that cycles through the states.
So my average experience of filling a cup with water goes like this: