Re:Everything with a battery should have an off switch
by RHSeeger on Monday May 09, 2022 @07:07PM
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For temperature, I can see it working... though I don't see how it would actually be _better_ than tapping in the number.
For the microwave time, it was a horrible experience pretty much every time I interacted with the device. A keypad is simple, intuitive, and easy to use.
Re:Everything with a battery should have an off switch
by dpark on Monday May 09, 2022 @09:49PM
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Keypads should be simple and easy to use, but they often are not. The buttons are inconsistently responsive and there’s always at least one other key you have to press, often two. And those other two are named whatever the designers decided and placed wherever the thought would be most confusing.
“Okay, I want to cook for 3 minutes.”
‘300’
”Ok, the numbers don’t work until I press something else. Hmmm”
‘Time Cook’ ‘400’
“Shit. I hit the 4. Where’s the cancel?
‘Cancel’ ‘Time Cook’ ‘300’
“Where’s the start?”
‘Start’
Re:Everything with a battery should have an off switch
by thaumasiotes on Monday May 09, 2022 @03:54PM
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> The range of actual temperatures in an oven is pretty small
The range of temperatures you use is about 200 degrees?
Digital dials can be nice in some cases.
My parents had an oven with a dial for the temperature. Spin it either way to increase or decrease the temperature by extra 5 degrees. I loved it. It was so much better than the touchpad design. The range of actual temperatures in an oven is pretty small and I found this much more friendly than punching in the temperature, getting it wrong, cancelling, and punching it in again. It was a “finger tip” dial so it was quick to spin. Probably horrible for people with bad arthritis or other hand mobility issues, though.
I wouldn’t mind a microwave with a similar dial for time. Again, the actual range of times in typical use (for me) is not that high. The design described with a two tier system for adjusting time seems moronic though.