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I'm not talking about an engineer's point of view. In fact "righty tighty lefty loosy" is an engineer's point of view. When taps are presented in pairs users ex
by ojbyrne 17y ago
I'm not talking about an engineer's point of view. In fact "righty tighty lefty loosy" is an engineer's point of view. When taps are presented in pairs users expect them to open "away" from the central spout.
- inquata 17y agoThat’d be interesting to clarify in actual usage testing – unless you already have such data to support your claim. I regard »righty tighty lefty loosy« as an established standard for opening revolving things. But due to the mnemonic existing in the first place, that probably needs some testing as well.
- ojbyrne 17y agoI'll admit to not having data to support my claim, other than my personal behavior (and the guy above). I'm not sure how you would do the testing since I think everyone has used faucets, and they almost always go the way I described (or at least that's my best recollection).
- inquata 17y agoI had to think about this thread when today I, oddly enough, stumbled over not 1 but 2 blog posts regarding water faucets and taps: http://mattmorphett.blogspot.com/2009/01/sometimes-there-is-good-reason-to-break.html http://mattmorphett.blogspot.com/2009/01/sometimes-there-is-... http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/usability-taps-lessons-web-design/ http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/usability-taps-lessons-we... (via http://www.uselog.com/2009/05/checklists-and-water-taps-for-usability_28.html http://www.uselog.com/2009/05/checklists-and-water-taps-for-...)