Re:Some Thoughts on Smart Canes
by shard on Saturday April 10, 2021 @03:27PM
(#26764296)
> While we're at it, can we stop replacing physical knobs and buttons by dumb touch sensitive buttons ? I feel like a cave man when I have to repeatedly press "+" on my induction hob and hear the stupid beep it makes x times
That's a UI design choice not inherent to the functionality. My induction stove has a touch strip where I can choose the heat intensity directly without having to go through intermediate states. It's actual more convenient than the analog dial on my gas range, in a sense, because the gas range dial only has low/medium/high zones, and I have to remember 2/3 medium for eggs and 1/4 high for steak, as opposed to 3 for eggs and 8 for steak on the induction stove.
That's a UI design choice not inherent to the functionality. My induction stove has a touch strip where I can choose the heat intensity directly without having to go through intermediate states. It's actual more convenient than the analog dial on my gas range, in a sense, because the gas range dial only has low/medium/high zones, and I have to remember 2/3 medium for eggs and 1/4 high for steak, as opposed to 3 for eggs and 8 for steak on the induction stove.