How Not to Design a Microwave

Re:How Not to Design a Microwave by nnq on Sunday January 07, 2018 @05:31AM (#16090259)

oh c'mon... there's an LCD/OLED display showing the time clearly. This is so much better than ANY alternative that any critique is nitpicking. (Though, to be honest, I have a very old white with black marks microwave that avoids the problems you mention... but it also had an ugly design that doesn't fit most modern kitchens :P)

Translated to web, you're basically saying "all websites should use a high contrast serif font at >16pt. to avoid people committing dangerous mistakes when reading instructions online" :)

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Re:How Not to Design a Microwave by mrob on Sunday January 07, 2018 @05:39AM (#16090280)

The display shows only the time. The power setting is shown by the indentation on the lower dial. This can be hard to see under some lighting conditions, specifically because it's designed to trick people into thinking it's made of metal.

The analogy is more like web pages using scanned images of hand writing, which I'd also say is bad design.

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