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Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards
A new piece explores modular industrial dashboards, the physical panel instruments used to display process data before computer screens took over control rooms. It traces how engineers combined dials, gauges and interchangeable modules to give operators readable readouts, a design problem that anticipated modern data visualization. Readers on Hacker News are discussing the historical design craft involved and its lessons for today's interface work.
Why now: Technology enthusiasts are interested in historical design approaches that prefigured modern dashboard interfaces
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- Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards · leephillips · 145
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