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If you haven't already, take a look at their awesome dashboard http://haya2now.jp/en.html http://haya2now.jp/en.html linked a couple of months ago https://news.

by sohooo 8y ago

If you haven't already, take a look at their awesome dashboard http://haya2now.jp/en.html http://haya2now.jp/en.html linked a couple of months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18046274 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18046274

hypertexthero 8y ago
Brings to mind the user interface for Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain.
- throwmeback 8y ago
  Yeah, it's kinda nostalgic in that it reminds me of those hacker-ish designs of late '90-'00s. Cohesive, readable, not too much whitespace.
  - pault 8y ago
    Wow, I looked at it and was just about to come back here and bash non-functional science fiction design, but it's actually completely usable and every element is displaying relevant data.
- dhimes 8y ago
  I have to admit that I was a bit disappointed when the controls wouldn't let me change them :)
  - wlesieutre 8y ago
    If you want to poke buttons on a blue and black spaceship control panel, the Mustang in Star Citizen might be fun: https://youtu.be/vNfw7qW7ZQI?t=146 https://youtu.be/vNfw7qW7ZQI?t=146 I suspect the design is inspired by the 2014 mockups for SpaceX's Dragon capsule control panel: http://www.americaspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Dragon-V2-Interior.jpg http://www.americaspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Drago... Cool looking, but I hope the real capsule's UI looks absolutely nothing like that, judging from the stories I've heard of the Model 3's touchscreen locking up and needing to reboot mid-drive fairly frequently. Not everything ought to be a touchscreen.
crispyambulance 8y ago
It's really cool. But now I wonder what a working UX looks like that sends commands to such very remote spacecrafts. Do they have a review process, a checklist? Does one person just type some stuff and a file gets uploaded (like a cosmic ftp command)?
- pilom 8y ago
  I used to work on near Earth satellites that had a <15 minute contact window about 10 times per day. Sensor requests and aiming commands would get pre planned about 2 days out with a gui that would let you point and click and it would package the proper commands automatically. Usually a team of ~2 analysts would work together to make sure all of the requests would make it into the upload package but always with a gui. We could also get a short notice request for data and could speed through the process in about 2 hours. Still just with a gui. The manual commands would never get sent ftp style because we only had short windows of contact because the dishes on Earth would only have the craft in the sky above them for so long. Some satellites pay for time on a set of air Force satellites in Geo called TDRSS to give them continuous comms but those are really expensive and really slow compared to what you can downlink to the ground.
  - rwmj 8y ago
    What's the review process to stop someone accidentally rotating the antenna away from earth or issuing a poweroff?
dmix 8y ago
Reminds me of those old over-engineered flash interfaces that consulting companies would make.
stronglikedan 8y ago
Very cool design, but I feel myself spending unnecessary brain cycles when trying to parse that weird font.

by sohooo 8y ago

hypertexthero 8y ago

Brings to mind the user interface for Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain.

throwmeback 8y ago
Yeah, it's kinda nostalgic in that it reminds me of those hacker-ish designs of late '90-'00s. Cohesive, readable, not too much whitespace.
- pault 8y ago
  Wow, I looked at it and was just about to come back here and bash non-functional science fiction design, but it's actually completely usable and every element is displaying relevant data.
dhimes 8y ago
I have to admit that I was a bit disappointed when the controls wouldn't let me change them :)
- wlesieutre 8y ago
  If you want to poke buttons on a blue and black spaceship control panel, the Mustang in Star Citizen might be fun: https://youtu.be/vNfw7qW7ZQI?t=146 https://youtu.be/vNfw7qW7ZQI?t=146 I suspect the design is inspired by the 2014 mockups for SpaceX's Dragon capsule control panel: http://www.americaspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Dragon-V2-Interior.jpg http://www.americaspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Drago... Cool looking, but I hope the real capsule's UI looks absolutely nothing like that, judging from the stories I've heard of the Model 3's touchscreen locking up and needing to reboot mid-drive fairly frequently. Not everything ought to be a touchscreen.

crispyambulance 8y ago

It's really cool. But now I wonder what a working UX looks like that sends commands to such very remote spacecrafts. Do they have a review process, a checklist? Does one person just type some stuff and a file gets uploaded (like a cosmic ftp command)?

pilom 8y ago
I used to work on near Earth satellites that had a <15 minute contact window about 10 times per day. Sensor requests and aiming commands would get pre planned about 2 days out with a gui that would let you point and click and it would package the proper commands automatically. Usually a team of ~2 analysts would work together to make sure all of the requests would make it into the upload package but always with a gui. We could also get a short notice request for data and could speed through the process in about 2 hours. Still just with a gui. The manual commands would never get sent ftp style because we only had short windows of contact because the dishes on Earth would only have the craft in the sky above them for so long. Some satellites pay for time on a set of air Force satellites in Geo called TDRSS to give them continuous comms but those are really expensive and really slow compared to what you can downlink to the ground.
- rwmj 8y ago
  What's the review process to stop someone accidentally rotating the antenna away from earth or issuing a poweroff?

dmix 8y ago

Reminds me of those old over-engineered flash interfaces that consulting companies would make.

stronglikedan 8y ago

Very cool design, but I feel myself spending unnecessary brain cycles when trying to parse that weird font.