My car and me and how we don’t get along

The patronizing UI and other annoyances of the Renault Mégane

Hans De Mondt

But, Hans, you spoiled brat…

…that’s a nice car!

Errr… yeah…

So why thrash it?

Because you actually wanted…

OK, because of it’s lousy engine then?

2 things about the engine

2nd gear

not-so-eco consumption

No, it’s because of bad UX tuning

So engineers at Renault don’t care about UX?

No, they probably care too much…

They care a lot about your well-being

Hence the car is full of sensors

Sometimes that’s fine, sometimes that’s annoying

The good

3 gordels vast achteraan

Gordel los achteraan!

The not so good

The devil is in the details

Shift gear

Seat pressure

Sensor 3: Gas tank

Range: ---------

Other annoyance 1: hierarchy in the CD player’s UI

< ALBUM 1> TRACK1

Other annoyance 2: digital dial

In conclusion

Sensors might make cars safer Feedback to drivers should be very,

very, very finely tuned or it will just add to the frustration

Don’t teach your kids the speed limits until they learn to drive themselves

thx