{"id":22159,"date":"2024-08-18T16:38:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T23:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=22159"},"modified":"2024-08-18T16:39:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T23:39:24","slug":"reinterpreting-classic-instrument-clusters-in-the-age-of-carplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/18\/reinterpreting-classic-instrument-clusters-in-the-age-of-carplay\/","title":{"rendered":"Reinterpreting classic instrument clusters in the age of CarPlay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Tell me about a product you hate that you use regularly.&#8221; I asked this question of hundreds of Google PM candidates I interviewed, and it was always a great bozo detector. Most people don&#8217;t have much of an answer\u2014no real passion or perspective. I want to know not just what sucks, but <em>why<\/em> it sucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I were asked the same question, I&#8217;d immediately say &#8220;Every car infotainment system ever made.&#8221; As Tolstoy might say, &#8220;Each one is unhappy in its own way.&#8221; The most interesting thing, I think, isn&#8217;t just to talk about the crappy mismatched &amp; competing experiences, but rather about <em>why<\/em> every system I&#8217;ve ever used sucks. The answer can&#8217;t be &#8220;Every person at every company is a moron&#8221;\u2014so what is it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So much comes down to the structure of the industry, with hardware &amp; software being made by a mishmash of corporate frenemies, all contending with a soup of regulations, risk aversion (one recall can destroy the profitability of a whole product line), and surprisingly bargain-bin electronics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite all that, talented folks continue to fight the good fight, and I enjoyed John LePore&#8217;s speculative designs that reinterpret the instrument clusters of classic cars (from Corvettes to DeLoreans) through Apple&#8217;s latest CarPlay framework:<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No, YOU\u2019RE obsessed with instrument clusters <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/deE0YgAhGY\">pic.twitter.com\/deE0YgAhGY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John LePore (@JohnnyMotion) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnnyMotion\/status\/1805979310257242568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Tell me about a product you hate that you use regularly.&#8221; I asked this question of hundreds of Google PM candidates I interviewed, and it was always a great bozo detector. Most people don&#8217;t have much of an answer\u2014no real passion or perspective. I want to know not just what sucks, but why it sucks. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22162,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22159\/revisions\/22162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}