Comment on The Hi and Lo directions on my range’s knobs
TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world 11 months agoProbably due to the knob itself and the configuration of the leads coming off of it.
Comment on The Hi and Lo directions on my range’s knobs
TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world 11 months agoProbably due to the knob itself and the configuration of the leads coming off of it.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.film 11 months ago
I’m sure there’s a lazy engineer reason. But as someone who does engineering semi-professionally, come on! You don’t skimp out on UX just because it’s easier to make it this way! There is a reason why Murphy’s Law exists! And in this case it’s actually a fire hazard!
intensely_human@lemm.ee 11 months ago
As a UX designer who became an appliance salesman, I challenge you to invent better UX for these features.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.film 11 months ago
Well, for starter. Pick a direction for Lo -> Hi either clockwise or counterclockwise and stick to it.
The rotating knob is great. Haptic feedback. You can see it’s off at a clan r from afar. It’s not an encoder but a potentiometer so each position always has the same function hard coded. Just make them all turn in the same direction.
I would chose counter-clockwise as it’s easier to turn it that way for a right handed person (and that’s how the single burners are designed, all 3 of them (although the warm zone has a weird dead zone for some reason). Start on Lo until it gets to Hi then for multiple ring ones when you hit ring_1 hi and continue you get to ring_2 Lo and so on.