In Marc-Uwe Kling's "Qualityland", reversing elevators, turning around subway cars, and flicking traffic lights is a level-skill obtained by accumulating social credit points.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Qualityland-Visit-Tomorrow-Marc-Uwe-K...

Not worth complicating the UX to address such a minor issue.

This is it exactly. It opens up the door to even more complexity in the design...

Now that you can unselect floors, if the elevator is on its way to the 5th floor and you unselect it, should it skip that floor mid-movement?

If there's only one floor selected, we'll probably want to disallow unselecting it while the elevator is moving, but what if you just hopped on and it hasn't moved yet?

This would probably make for an interesting interview question.

Minor to you... Introducing a great experience is the job of good UX. Not simply limiting options and saying 'done'. I am sure there are better options to handle this. Seems like no-one has put the effort into it (yet).

Unnecessarily stopping at a floor for a few seconds is minor to literally everyone riding in a public elevator.

But yeah, I'm sure that at all of the various elevator companies, over all of the years that elevators have had electronic controls, nobody has bothered to put any thought into this.

Limiting options is exactly the point. Elevators are supposed to be easy to use for the entire population, including the very young, the very old, those with disabilities, those not able to read or write the dominant language, etc.

In these cases, it is simply the best UX to keep everything really simple.

Because you could deselect other peoples choices.

This isn't an argument, as you can also select other people's non-choices.

There's some incentive not to do that, however, because in many cases it will inconvenience you just as much as everyone else. But if you could just deselect all the floors between the current one and your destination, there's a pretty strong incentive there.

Until someone punches you out, of course, because it'd be hard to hide and you're in a confined space with them...

Elevators sometimes have an anti-mischief feature where they will deselect every floor if all the floors are selected in a brief period of time. The cab will slow to a stop if no new buttons are pressed. It’s kind of eerie, actually.

Neat! How do you know this?

The elevators at my office were upgraded a few years ago and one of the elevator techs happened to mention it to me. I tried it out while alone, for obvious reasons.

Cool. I was hoping for something other than "I exhaustively test all new elevators".

That's a one way ratchet. Once selected, the fight is over.

If you can go back and forth, it would probably get violent.

That doesn't prevent people from getting to their destination.

It isn’t an argument. It’s a statement of fact.

How do I go about deselecting other people's choices, if that's my specific goal? I can get whatever I want in Jira, but nothing in elevators. It's fucked.

Maybe ask a woman?