So is it muted or not?

My money is safely on BLUE = ACTIVATED / MUTED

Same

I hate this guessing game with some uis does my nut, who the hell knows if it's on or off, just basically guessing

Seriously!

Well, with regards to UX, this isn't too bad. You have monochrome elements and then one that's saturated when activated, so it stands out. Which is how you'd normally do this. Could they have made it somewhat better by having the microphone crossed out only when actually muted, maybe bold the lines more? Sure. But this ain't too bad as it is.

You are confusing "could" with "should", and the answer is a resounding "Yes".

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You are confusing "professional opinion" with "personal preference". Point was that it's not wrong per se and there is reasoning behind it. And that there are ways to make it more obvious, sure. A response to the OP's doubt that there was a UX designer involved with this. I've heard that BYD people do read these, so whining about it is a legit good thing to do. Fingers crossed 😁

"hey, can you hear me?"

I don't work the car industry, but in the engineering industry. All I would add is no UX would go out with such ambiguity on my watch. Then again, ambuiguity in my workstreams = explosions and deaths, not just a missed bit of convo. So no, no confusion over personal preference vs professional opinion. Its poor UX design, albeit of a non-critical nature. The office grad probably thought it looked cool and the supervising engineer proobably had more important things to look at on sign-off day. But, easily changed, so hopefully picked up, as you say. 🤞

I don't care about the monochrome icons. They have a strike through on it so I'm sure they can have two icons; with and without the strike. The worst part though is the text. They can definitely change it to indicate an action or the current state.

Yeah, I mentioned the crossed out microphone. I agree. Not sure how their resources are organized, but if I had to venture a guess, they probably have one icon file per feature and they just tint it depending on the state.

LOL yes that always works, but my god, no feature should be this opaque.

Worse though is "Oh crap, she heard that!"