New PCM update and it’s ugly android style buttons.

[Slowrey]

I was excited to get my Taycan back after being updated, only to be completely deflated by the PCMs new look. Ugly red, blue, and green home buttons. Why!? It looked great before.

I work as a designer so maybe I’m easily unsettled by such things but the Taycan has been my safe place to free my brain and soak up the beautiful, subtle ambiance Porsche has provided.

Will this change? Please say it will. I’ve gone from a 150k car to feeling like I’m in something from Fisher Price.

I know I’m being dramatic… but bummed none the less.

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[Jasper4S]

Give it a few days, and eat a snickers ?

 

[DerekS]

Get over it.

It beats having the terribly buggy PCM that didn't work right most of the time.

 

[SteveGTS]

I was excited to get my Taycan back after being updated, only to be completely deflated by the PCMs new look. Ugly red, blue, and green home buttons. Why!? It looked great before.

I work as a designer so maybe I’m easily unsettled by such things but the Taycan has been my safe place to free my brain and soak up the beautiful, subtle ambiance Porsche has provided.

Will this change? Please say it will. I’ve gone from a 150k car to feeling like I’m in something from Fisher Price.

I know I’m being dramatic… but bummed none the less.

Not sure I agree with you. Colours make it easier to identify functions quickly. I expect the fashion for shades of grey in UI design will pass.

 

[mutanthands]

The colours help easier functionality / UX. Easier to pick what you want at a glance, which is what you want when driving. However, from a purely aesthetic point of view, yes it’s a step back.

 

[W1NGE]

I was excited to get my Taycan back after being updated, only to be completely deflated by the PCMs new look. Ugly red, blue, and green home buttons. Why!? It looked great before.

I work as a designer so maybe I’m easily unsettled by such things but the Taycan has been my safe place to free my brain and soak up the beautiful, subtle ambiance Porsche has provided.

Will this change? Please say it will. I’ve gone from a 150k car to feeling like I’m in something from Fisher Price.

I know I’m being dramatic… but bummed none the less.

I'd say it's 110% the better for it and a much welcomed uPdate.

 

[Kayone73]

I was excited to get my Taycan back after being updated, only to be completely deflated by the PCMs new look. Ugly red, blue, and green home buttons. Why!? It looked great before.

I work as a designer so maybe I’m easily unsettled by such things but the Taycan has been my safe place to free my brain and soak up the beautiful, subtle ambiance Porsche has provided.

Will this change? Please say it will. I’ve gone from a 150k car to feeling like I’m in something from Fisher Price.

I know I’m being dramatic… but bummed none the less.

Yes you're being dramatic, but that's your prerogative. Act like however you wish ??

 

[fgwinn]

Get over it.

It beats having the terribly buggy PCM that didn't work right most of the time.

I got used to the uPdated colored icons. I am disappointed that my car has a new set of gremlins. Blank panels on the second page of the main central screen are annoying. More recently the driver door window refused to stay up and opens without pressing any buttons. I have just about had it with Porsche. Do love the ride though and will miss that.

 

[jld1]

I intend to never look at the PCM in favor of android auto.

Also what's with the stray shots at Android? Like iOS doesn't use color...?

 

[Windpower]

I intend to never look at the PCM in favor of android auto.

I use Apple Carplay so I seldom see these new icons.

 

[Slowrey]

Not sure I agree with you. Colours make it easier to identify functions quickly. I expect the fashion for shades of grey in UI design will pass.

I don’t disagree with the safety that comes with the color coded buttons, but I knew where they were after driving the car for 5 minutes when I first bought it. Just not sure we needed to jump to the Hi-Viz with those specific buttons when I could easily run off the road just trying to get AC lower.

 

[ThePaddyWan]

I thought the same at first and after a while the colors made sense in terms of use. Tap blue for navigation, red for music. Not a physical button, but it improves intuition at least.

 

[Jay_Walking]

Yes you're being dramatic, but that's your prerogative. Act like however you wish ??

Leading by example!

 

[Tsingtao]

You aren't being dramatic. I too think the new PCM colored icons are terrible. Porsche is simply overcompensating for its lack of tech prowess. If Porsche had its feces properly compacted, they would allow users to completely customize icons, backgrounds, colors, styles, etc. For example, would it really be so difficult to allow us to select our own wallpaper background for the PCM? And while we are talking about colorization, perhaps Porsche could have spent a little of its PCM upgrade budget to program the PCM's virtual car color to match the color of the actual car.

 

[WasserGKuehlt]

You aren't being dramatic. I too think the new PCM colored icons are terrible. Porsche is simply overcompensating for its lack of tech prowess. If Porsche had its feces properly compacted, they would allow users to completely customize icons, backgrounds, colors, styles, etc.

Let's see here:
a) expose to the user a set of APIs to change {icon colors, background, styles etc.}, introduce a couple of screens to support that UX, harden it for the crazy formats the user might come up with, handle an array of potential error cases as well as a "return to safety/reset to factory" button from any of the new menus, test all that
vs.
b) (not do the above, but work on the other 500+ bugs and features in the backlog)

It's not lack of tech prowess, as the above is as sophisticated as writing a "to-do list" app. But it takes non-0 time, and prioritizing it has to make sense.

[...] And while we are talking about colorization, perhaps Porsche could have spent a little of its PCM upgrade budget to program the PCM's virtual car color to match the color of the actual car.

You are correct on this, and I was wondering the same; perhaps they considered and rejected it, as it may have been difficult to achieve high contrast (ie accessibility) for the entire color palette, or could have been difficult to feed in (true) PTS shades. (However, with proper tech prowess, the car could look at itself, and project its true color on the screen, corrected for white balance and with the correct background color. ;-))

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