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No doubt it was the wrong coffee maker for them. I don't think it was well designed though. I think it was "eh, ok" designed for the happy path, and very poor f
by redshirtrob 6y ago
No doubt it was the wrong coffee maker for them. I don't think it was well designed though. I think it was "eh, ok" designed for the happy path, and very poor for the unhappy (but probably pretty normal) path.
I think what threw me is the "grinder off" button with a red light. The red light made sense in the context. But, if I were designing this, I would have a "grinder" button with a green light that was default "on", indicating that grinding was imminent. There was no green light on this part. It was red or off.
That would have been consistent with the rest of the interface, where a green light on the "brew" dial meant the timer was set and a red light meant the coffee had brewed.
- wging 6y agoIn this situation, a physical toggle switch seems like a good idea. Its state is always inspectable and it stays the way you left it.
- mediaman 6y agoYeah, something like this would be much better off with a rocker switch with Grinder: ON, OFF. Then it saves state between runs and it's always clear if the grinder is on or off.
- CydeWeys 6y agoThat does seem like the ideal solution, but sadly a mechanical rocker switch would cost some number of pennies more to implement, hence they haven't. I have a hot water stand-by boiler in my kitchen a $15 outlet switch because the darn thing didn't come with a simple power button. Hardly anything these days does. All of which is to say, the ideal design often conflicts with the consumer's other expressed preference of "lowest price possible, it doesn't matter how many corners are cut and how quickly it dies".