I recently watched both the 1974 and 2009 versions of The Taking of Pelham 123 and it really stood out how the industrial designs of their respective eras helped elevate the original[1][2] in comparison to the remake[3][4].

[1] - https://media.doblu.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Taking-of...

[2] - https://ilarge.lisimg.com/image/21019979/1118full-the-taking...

[3] - https://c8.alamy.com/comp/K3KWM1/the-taking-of-pelham-123-da...

[4] - https://press.moviewalker.jp/api/resizeimage/content/main/mv...

The very cool https://www.astrouxds.com aims to be the pixel version of the physical dashboards. It's a very cool design library.

Not related to Astro the templating engine.

> Don’t you just want to rotate it, no matter what it does?

A grandparent's house had light switches that looked kind of like this but black (bakelite). And they are very satisfying, a good amount of resistance while rotating, then click.

There's really so much physicality to interacting with objects that we've lost as we switch to more and more touch screens and capacitive buttons. Also the reassuring "thunk" of a nice chunky button to confirm you've pressed it is just so important to user confidence