F-35 avionics touchscreen hard to use, turbulence makes finger control difficult

Accidentally linked the wrong article, here is the full writeup: https://boingboing.net/2021/01/29/the-problems-of-touchscree...

It's kind of amazing that this usability issue wasn't obvious given the use case. While touchscreens are great for functional enhancement over time, the lack of tactile feedback sucks especially in a vibrating environment with varying g-forces.

This combined with the recent headlines Kia made by promising to keep real buttons, highlights the opportunity to innovate a modular tactile button system. While LCD and OLED physical button surfaces address the backlit labeling issue, a standardized modular system which allows replacing, modifying and expanding physical control surface layouts without substantial re-engineering seems needed. Obvious applications include automotive, home automation, media/music production and of course instrumentation of all kinds.

Same conclusion with naval technology.

Analogue controls are easier to understand and interface with under pressure.

A separate question for observation, are we better off with analogue all the way down for life support systems? These too were early cost complications in the F-35/22 program .

Trust physics over digital logic whenever mission critical!