Surprise!!! Here's an OTA update. Sorry about the cold pizza

[dstepin92]

That is a complete fail by Porsche software in terms of user experience design. While the engineer validating the automatic fetching of new map tiles indeed wants to know every time the update succeeds, the end user couldn't care less. There is absolutely no reason to popup a message with an audible ding every time the PCM fetches new map data. I can see maybe if it failed to fetch data, but the driver really has no use whatsoever to know that it fetched new map tiles. They prevent the driver from reading text messages while driving, but hey, why not make the driver read a popup every 50 miles. My drive home from the dealer was 3,500 miles, the damned map update notifications annoyed me the whole way.

Things like this convince me Porsche doesn't actually do any user experience design, they just let the engineers implement whatever they feel is useful, but engineers will implement what is useful to them, not to an average driver. Another example of this is the charging settings interface.

This takes me back to why I design products in general. This was always the concern, the separation between the engineering team that does the backend development never really connects with the guys that design the front end around the end users. Ah... software... love and hate it all the same.

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