Skeumorphic look, unreadable icon, blinks, shadows, energy flames… it hurts🤕

It’s called the Millennials’ best brand not without a reason. Tesla turned this whole car experience upside down. The energy revolution took it to the whole new level and offered buying experience that is clear and pleasant. They also change the way we interact with car by adding huge and extremely responsive screen that gives us all the info about the car.

As this tesla famous screen is working the way it should it still looks like from 2009, Skeumorphic look, unreadable icon, blinks, shadows, energy flames.

In my toyota I had a chance to choose a modern multimedia center…with the interface that worked like it was from 1995.

After clicking the button you have to wait at least a second till something happens on the screen. Input lag for touch and physical buttons takes way too long, the interface that tries to imitate reality, with disgusting animation and 15fps frame rate is even worse. It’s definitely not the experience similar to the one on my iPhone so as the result I’ve chosen a good old line display with great responsiveness.

The success of Tesla made the copycats work harder. But we observe how the automotive industry struggles with technology inside the car. Even the world famous BMW looks and works like it was from 2009 with the blue energy ornamentation where millions of details and unnecessary animations distract the user from getting the option he needs. And one of their worst idea was to equip the car with a joystick to navigate the screen.

Superbly inconvenient — was simply a distraction for the user who had to manoeuvre the cursor using that “great” invention.

I have reviewed dozens of car displays looking at readability, usability, information architecture and graphical interface. These were the only cars that were made in 2016 and 2017 and I think we are doomed..Why car giants can’t implement something from the mobile era? The only hope is the android auto that should arrive soon.

Take a look and compare. Hope they won’t ruin it like Samsung did it in the mobile android.

They start their real jobs...

..and terrify future employers, accustomed to loyal employees and the old work culture. Self realization, achieving our goals and great work environment — this is what we’ve came for.

Born in the mobile era, we know perfectly the world of Facebook, Snapchat, Dropbox or Slack that are user-friendly and well-designed. And then it comes the big day, when we have to be people in the know of Microsoft Office package and its dark corners. While Windows 10 was a great announcement — the world of office suite is fossilized like a mammoth in the Royal Museum of the Natural History — even repainted and well-preserved one is still a fossil.

Complicated interfaces and unintuitive click paths make us believe that the know-how of Office is the key business ability.

old office interface doesn’t vary much form the new one and it’s still in many companies

Most apps we come across in work is old-school and not in a good, accessible way. It might be pretty painted but it’s all just a mask.

Take Salesforce — one of the biggest sales platform or Oracle.

Developers, Finance, HCM/HR, IT, Marketing, Marketing cloud, Sales, Sales cloud, Salesforce IQ, Salesforce lightning, Service, Service cloud, Supply Chain, community, community cloud, Pardot, app cloud, Iot cloud…count 56 more — U Mad?

The options in products are so hard to find that you’re basically getting a headache trying to handle it and not to get lost. And even if you managed to do that — there’s plenty of options you won’t even use because they’re irrelevant. It shouldn’t be the sign of our generation.

In this bitter reality, we’re able to find few exceptions. Slack is taking over the world with it’s awesomeness expressed by fruitful user experience, visual identity and distinguishing marks. They achieved huge success in the Millennial era and their business model is broadly discussed. We all know that but others definitely should pay attention.

Connected utilities

Something we deal with on a daily basis. Maybe you don’t need a car or a mobile banking app but the routine of life will certainly get you. And it will come with the upcoming bills for utilities. In the world of smartphones, millennials probably see the electric meter for the first time when they move from their parents’ house and start paying their own bills.

There is no solution that will work as a portal into the modern powered home for us and there’s almost no good enough user experience to help you deal with this down-to-earth limitations. There is no trust to the electricity, water, gas or garbage collection providers. Are they supporting us to live more sustainable? They have an incentive for us to use more electricity and produce more recyclable garbage to make their stock go up rather than trying to make money on something else like education or on-demand information.

So where is the water coming from? From the sink? (😂) maybe from a drying lake? And how much gallons did I spend for the morning shower? One kWh is ¢20 — so how much is the kWh? Wouldn’t it be better to have the data introduced while using your laptop or TV? Where’s the transparency and comprehension?

There is currently no modern experience that lets you control your utilities and it’s mirroring interactions that millennials have in their daily used sectors eg social media, travel booking or e-commerce not mentioning elegant and understandable interfaces.