Are buttons as endangered as the device that used to play your favorite mix tape?
Yes, says a top designer, who likens “button mode to the cassette player that stayed forever” in vehicles’ interiors.
“(Eliminating buttons) opens up a lot of structure in that center stack,” Dave Marek, global creative director-Acura, says in an interview. “There’s still a lot of hardware from the HMI (human-machine-interface) system, but it frees up design to thin out the center console. You get rid of some of that architecture behind it.”
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