Tesla Model X Owner Has Had Enough of Minimalism, Adds Physical Buttons
Tesla Model X Owner Has Had Enough of Minimalism, Adds Physical Buttons

Tesla Model X Owner Has Had Enough Of Minimalism, Adds Physical Buttons

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
I love both the twitter poster and the writer say “the buttons defeat the point of minimalism” which is incredibly false. It could be minimalist to remove the display… which would get rid of all of your controls and functions. The point is having a vehicle with less clutter that requires your eyes to be off the road.
Is it? Frankly, I don't think so, given how closely this resembles stupid design trends elsewhere.
The problem is that people interpret minimalism to mean whatever they want. In Tesla’s case it means no buttons but tons of functions just hidden in sub-menus. In some it means an array of buttons each only doing one thing. There’s a good mix between them, but minimalism doesn’t mean removing everything or creating only one “thing” it means maximizing how little you actually need. Some buttons (like defrost, temp control, gear position, windshield wipers and others) are actually necessary and therefore removing them isn’t minimalism but simply just absence.