How Do You Turn The Radio Off?

User experience is king! With the old radio you know that you turn the volume dial to turn the music on, the further you turn the dial the louder it gets, you turn it ant-clockwise to turn it off. Radio stations are either chosen by pressing the pre-set buttons or by tuning using the dial on the right, simples!

The screen in my car shows the radio station, the artist playing, when the artist is playing at a location near me, the lyrics to the song playing, icons for next station or previous station but it's missing any form of "stop" or "turn off"! Reading the manual suggest "Use the play/pause" button which it doesn't then show where it is, there is not physical "play/pause" button. Why is user experience an afterthought these days? Especially when driving, user experience needs to be intuitave and simple!

/rant

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Tags:User Experience, Radio, MBUX, Mercedes

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This update was first written by Darren Wall
on Tuesday 9th Jul 2024.
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