{"id":290322,"date":"2026-02-10T10:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/290322\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:20:07","slug":"touchscreens-wrong-technology-for-main-car-controls-says-iphone-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/290322\/","title":{"rendered":"Touchscreens ‘wrong technology’ for main car controls, says iPhone designer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Touchscreens are \u201cthe wrong technology to be the primary interface\u201d in cars, according to\u00a0the man who designed the iPhone and iPad.<\/p>\n

Many car designers credit Jony Ive\u2019s 2007 creation \u2013 the first phone to feature a touchscreen,\u00a0revolutionising\u00a0the phone industry \u2013 as the reason why the technology is now used in nearly every car on sale today.<\/p>\n

The most radical use has come from\u00a0Mercedes-Benz<\/a>, especially in the new GLC EQ<\/a>,\u00a0which features a dashboard-spanning 39in touchscreen.<\/p>\n

Howeverm when the Ive-designed interior of the Ferrari Luce EV<\/a> was unveiled on Monday, it featured an array of physical switches and buttons alongside a singular central touchscreen,\u00a0rather than the predicted\u00a0touchscreen array.<\/p>\n

Asked why, Ive said: \u201cThe reason we developed touch [for the iPhone] was that we were developing an idea to solve a problem. The big idea was to develop a general-purpose interface that could be a calculator, could be a typewriter, could be a camera, rather than having physical buttons.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI never would have used touch in a car [for the main controls]. It is something I would never have dreamed of doing\u00a0because it requires you to look [away from the road]. So that’s just the wrong technology to be the primary interface.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Asked how the Luce’s touchscreen differs from others, given his comments, Ive replied: \u201cSo much of what we did was so that you could use it intuitively, enjoy it\u00a0and use it safely.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe use some touch in the central [screen], but it’s very thoughtful, and\u00a0the vast majority of the interfaces are physical.\u00a0Every single switch feels different, so you don’t need to look.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking about the popularity of touchscreens in cars, he said: \u201cI think what happened was touch was seen almost like fashion. It was the most current technology, so [companies thought] \u2018we need a bit of touch\u2019, then the next year \u2018we’re going to have an even bigger one\u2019, and it will get bigger and bigger.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the way that we design [car interiors]\u00a0isn’t that we’re trying to solve problems [like we did with the iPhone].\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Touchscreens are \u201cthe wrong technology to be the primary interface\u201d in cars, according to\u00a0the man who designed the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[61,60,202,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-290322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}