Comment on The Hi and Lo directions on my range’s knobs

• LazaroFilm@lemmy.film ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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!

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    As a UX designer who became an appliance salesman, I challenge you to invent better UX for these features.

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    • LazaroFilm@lemmy.film ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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