Buttons are back and storage is king when it comes to car interiors

We talk with Nissan designer Hiren Patel about how vehicle interior designs are changing.

The short version

• As with interior design for houses, interior design for vehicles is also subject to fashion trends.
• And like any fashion trend, even the best ideas can become stale and played out with overuse.
• Some ideas weren’t the best, either, like demonstrably worse human-machine interfaces that add to driver distraction; yet, they still proliferated throughout the industry and across the cars offered for sale.

What happened

But the good news is that the pushback seems to be working. That resulted in cars with minimalist interiors that looked good in the dealership.

Why it matters

But people drive their cars on roads; they don’t just sit inside them, parked inside a dealership.

Summary by Nerd News Network. Read the full article at Ars Technica via the links above and below.