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Crafting a high-performance TV user interface using React

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Re: Crafting a high-performance TV user interface using React

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Post by zaroth »

nom wrote: post #145
makecheck wrote: post #26

Interface performance is one of the strangest problems to have in this age of crazy processing power but it is extremely common. Some of the delay is just plain silly and avoidable, like having long and synchronous opening animations in response to an action, which only serve to waste the user’s time. (Oh how I love being on a web site like AT&T and watching their JavaScript poorly zoom open a blank box from the cent…

That reminds me: I have a Siemens washing machine, and the interface have a latency of >500 ms. How they fucked it up is way beyond me. It consists of nothing more than a rotary switch, four buttons and three 7-segment LED displays. I've played with the thought of disassembling the firmware just to see how they fucked this up this bad. I could never make something this unresponsive even if I tried. It's utterly fasci…

Why you can't just toss the clothes in, close the door and walk away is beyond me. Wish I could empty the whole 150oz of Tide into the machine and have it dispense over 96 loads too.

Re: Crafting a high-performance TV user interface using React

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Post by trafficlight »

makecheck wrote: post #26

Interface performance is one of the strangest problems to have in this age of crazy processing power but it is extremely common. Some of the delay is just plain silly and avoidable, like having long and synchronous opening animations in response to an action, which only serve to waste the user’s time. (Oh how I love being on a web site like AT&T and watching their JavaScript poorly zoom open a blank box from the cent…

The Coke touchscreen fountain machines. There should be zero animation. Just let me pour my drink.

Re: Crafting a high-performance TV user interface using React

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Post by lobster_johnson »

zaroth wrote: post #151
nom wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That reminds me: I have a Siemens washing machine, and the interface have a latency of >500 ms. How they fucked it up is way beyond me. It consists of nothing more than a rotary switch, four buttons and three 7-segment LED displays. I've played with the thought of disassembling the firmware just to see how they fucked this up this bad. I could never make something this unresponsive even if I tried. It's utterly fasci…

Why you can't just toss the clothes in, close the door and walk away is beyond me. Wish I could empty the whole 150oz of Tide into the machine and have it dispense over 96 loads too.

I've thought this many times, and I suspect it's somewhat complicated, engineering-wise — but solvable.

For one, detergent comes in at least three forms: Powder, liquid and those little plastic pouches. Powder would be pretty easy (but the dosage would be brand-specific) and liquid would be messy (flow rate would be a challenge).

The easiest way would be if all machines could accept a "standard pellet" which gets loaded in some kind of completely fool-proof way so the machine cannot mechanically choke on them, ever, or accidentally add too few/many to a load.

Same thing with dishwashers.

As for why you can't just close the door and walk away: Setting the program is an important step in washing clothes. Modern machines do have a single "start" button.

Re: Crafting a high-performance TV user interface using React

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Post by swrobel »

PretzelFisch wrote: post #137
swrobel wrote: post #130

Disheartening that A/B testing and user feedback led to video previews. One of those "features" that's so annoying you wonder how it ever made it past the brainstorming stage.

Still worse is auto starting the program when your trying to figure out what to watch. They have my money already why do they need to inflate their view numbers?

That's what they call "video previews." Sounds so innocuous huh?

Re: Crafting a high-performance TV user interface using React

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

joezydeco wrote: post #106
usaphp wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Especially the lag that you see on some brand new cars, only BMW and Audi seem to have lag free interface, but anything else that involves touch interface is just horrid! I've recently sat in my friend's brand new Honda SUV and the interface lag is just plain silly, for a car that costs $30,000+. Why is that?

Because the software development was started 3 years ago on a platform that was spec'd out 5 years ago. Over those 5 years, the software requirements slowly crept upward while the hardware performance stayed the same and couldn't be changed.

If only we'd work together then the car could have a common bus system and you'd just swap out the control console on the front and choose your level of [stupid, annoying, distracting] graphics and what have you.

There's no competition in these systems because people choose the car and get lumbered with the UI on the console. Kinda like if houses had unique electrical systems and you couldn't change the white-goods.

Re: Crafting a high-performance TV user interface using React

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

ywecur wrote: post #144

How many people still use TVs these days? Everyone I know don't even own one anymore, though my friends circle might not be that representative of society as a whole.

Practically every UK household.

I know some people without a TV but that's because they choose not to consume mass media, we've done it in the past.

Where do you live? Presumably your circle still consume mainstream media but do so via laptop/desktop/handhelds?

Re: Crafting a high-performance TV user interface using React

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Post by yeukhon »

godelski wrote: post #154

I'm still waiting for them to support Firefox and Linux. Their support says they are working on it, but I am positive that is a lie. At least I can work around it by masking my user-agent string as Chrome (DRM needs to be enabled).

Netflix works on Firefox. I don't remember about Linux. ~3 years ago yes Netflix wouldn't work on Linux without plugins, but I thought they fixed it or provided a workaround.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/08/firefox-49-linux-netflix-...

Re: Crafting a high-performance TV user interface using React

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Post by kluck »

smnscu wrote: post #71
usaphp wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Especially the lag that you see on some brand new cars, only BMW and Audi seem to have lag free interface, but anything else that involves touch interface is just horrid! I've recently sat in my friend's brand new Honda SUV and the interface lag is just plain silly, for a car that costs $30,000+. Why is that?

Have you seen BMW's Display Key or however it's called? Ridiculous.

Just to be clear: That is a KEY with a DISPLAY. THAT is ridiculous.
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