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Capacitive touchscreens
Raised as a usability problem by 15 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2011–2023), in 15 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Hard to type and program on touchscreen phonesUnreviewed
20112026- Capacitive touchscreens are slow and inaccurate for typing and moving around compared with keyboards2023-10-25
- Capacitive touchscreens are frustrating for typing and programming on phones2023-04-18
- Touchscreen interfaces are an enormous compromise and often painful to use2022-08-17
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 17 complaints
- Capacitive car buttons give no tactile feedback, so you can't feel that they were pressed2023-10-26
- Capacitive touchscreens are slow and inaccurate for typing and moving around compared with keyboards2023-10-25
- Capacitive touch buttons are confusing and hard to operate in cars2023-05-20
- Capacitive steering wheel buttons are hard to operate reliably and are described as horrible2023-04-27
- Capacitive touchscreens are frustrating for typing and programming on phones2023-04-18
- Touchscreen interfaces are an enormous compromise and often painful to use2022-08-17
- Touchscreens replace tactile buttons, so people must hunt through menus and multiple screens to operate devices2019-09-30
- Capacitive touchscreens require looking at the screen repeatedly while driving, causing distraction2019-06-16
- Flat unadorned buttons on a stove can be confused with display content, adding cognitive load2019-01-02
- Capacitive controls are often hard to use and unusable in practice2019-01-02
- Touch buttons fail or trigger neighbouring controls when fingers are wet2019-01-02
- Capacitive touchscreens are hard to operate in very cold temperatures2018-07-03
- Touch input feels laggy and delayed for timing-intensive games compared to resistive screens2017-08-23
- Capacitive function keys give no physical feedback, so users can't tell when they've pressed them2016-11-14
- Capacitive screens on small phones are overly limiting for hacker-style use like coding2014-12-28
- Resting hand or grip accidentally activates the capacitive home button2012-02-28
- Touch controls that look like buttons but aren't make it unclear how to operate them2011-07-04