Peter Nowak

Peter Nowak

Peter Nowak blogs about the cultural and competitive impacts of technology, as well as the political and economic issues tied to innovation. Follow Peter on Twitter: @peternowak

The declining effort of music interfaces

by Peter Nowak on Sunday, November 11, 2012 8:02am - 0 Comments

The other day, I was fiddling with the new Lynx car receiver from Sirius XM. My previous satellite radio receiver had a bunch of actual physical buttons on it, while the new device is all touch screen. That got me thinking about how interfaces have changed over the years and how they’re going to continue evolving, particularly in how we’re having to put less and less effort into listening to music.

Rather than expound on it, I made up this short graphic that I think explains it all:

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