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A short list: 1. fonts too small 2. buttons that do different things depending on how long the button is held down 3. chording - needing to hold down more th
by skookumchuck 7y ago
A short list:
1. fonts too small
2. buttons that do different things depending on how long the button is held down
3. chording - needing to hold down more than one button simultaneously to do something
4. blink speed - slow blink means one thing, fast blink means another. Is that LED blinking "slow" or "fast"?
5. labeling buttons with icons that have no deducible meaning
6. modes
7. having to do the next step within a certain number of seconds or it fails and you have to start all over again
- yowlingcat 7y agoReading each one of these made me silently scream inside. I'm not elderly yet (on the outside, I suppose), but each one of these things is poor UX and makes me absolutely livid.
- skookumchuck 7y agoThey're incredibly common. I can't get the radio in my car out of certain modes I accidentally get into. It doesn't even have an off button. I essentially have to wait several minutes until it times out. Many devices I have, once I lose the manual, are simply impossible to use because of the points listed above. My dashcam is simply impossible to use because of this, even though it has a bitmapped display. All it needs is power, menu, up, down, select and with a bitmapped display you can do anything with that. But noooo...