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Dieter Rams, and by extension Braun, produced minimal yet tactile hardware interfaces for a variety of products such as this Braun T1000CD.
The Teenage Engineering OP-1 combines a mixture of hardware buttons, knobs, and a color-coded OLED display.
An iPod, an iconic & revolutionary hardware interface that re-imagined the jog wheel.

Hardware interface design is a cross-disciplinary design field that shapes the physical connection between people and technology. It employs a combination of filmmaking tools, software prototyping, and electronics breadboarding.

Through this parallel visualization and development, hardware interface designers are able to shape a cohesive vision alongside business and engineering that more deeply embeds design throughout every stage of the product. The development of hardware interfaces as a field continues to mature as more things connect to the internet.

Hardware interface designers draw upon industrial design, interaction design and electrical engineering.

Interface elements include touchscreens, knobs, buttons, sliders and switches as well as input sensors such as microphones, cameras, and accelerometers.

Examples

Example hardware interfaces include a computer mouse, TV remote control, kitchen timer, control panel for a nuclear power plant[1] and an aircraft cockpit.[2]

References

  1. ^ E.E. Shultz; G.L. Johnson. "User interface design in safety parameter display systems: direction for enhancement". Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
  2. ^ Lance Sherry; Peter Polson; Michael Feary. "DESIGNING USER-INTERFACES FOR THE COCKPIT:" (PDF). Society of Automotive Engineers. Retrieved 28 June 2011.

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