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I've been considering making "real" shutters for my house (mostly for fun), but haven't yet thought of a way to do it that wouldn't be a fire hazard when they'r

• bombcar 5y ago
  Mount the entire shutter assembly on an “oh shit” handle that falls off the house if pulled.
  • robocat 5y ago
    User interface design: designing something that is only used in an emergency seems likely to fail in an emergency due to unfamiliarity and stress.
    • flemhans 5y ago
      What about a normal door handle then?
      • robocat 5y ago
        That has the opposite UI problem! A familiar affordance that has very unobvious consequences: the entire shutter assembly falls off the house.