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Unfortunately, none of these things have that subtlety of terrible designs which makes them so insidious.
by tpeo 9y ago
Unfortunately, none of these things have that subtlety of terrible designs which makes them so insidious.
- chubot 9y agoThe biggest anti-pattern is the stateful VCR-like digit displays with a couple buttons. They're somewhat going out of style because more stuff has touch screens or can be controlled by a smartphone. But lots of audio equipment still uses this "pattern". And thermostats have it. I'm a programmer and I still have problems figuring out that their state machine is without the manual. I just bought a $20 clock with the same issue. It doesn't help when one of the actions is "hold a button" either. There's no feedback as to what action you performed -- did I hold it for long enough?