Re:Judge: Citibank isn't entitled to $500M it sent to variou...
by mediaman on Thursday February 18, 2021 @12:54PM
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Yeah, something like this would be much better off with a rocker switch with Grinder: ON, OFF. Then it saves state between runs and it's always clear if the grinder is on or off.
Re:Judge: Citibank isn't entitled to $500M it sent to variou...
by CydeWeys on Saturday February 20, 2021 @03:06PM
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That does seem like the ideal solution, but sadly a mechanical rocker switch would cost some number of pennies more to implement, hence they haven't.
I have a hot water stand-by boiler in my kitchen a $15 outlet switch because the darn thing didn't come with a simple power button. Hardly anything these days does. All of which is to say, the ideal design often conflicts with the consumer's other expressed preference of "lowest price possible, it doesn't matter how many corners are cut and how quickly it dies".
I think what threw me is the "grinder off" button with a red light. The red light made sense in the context. But, if I were designing this, I would have a "grinder" button with a green light that was default "on", indicating that grinding was imminent. There was no green light on this part. It was red or off.
That would have been consistent with the rest of the interface, where a green light on the "brew" dial meant the timer was set and a red light meant the coffee had brewed.