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Yes of course it’s by design. I just wonder why.
by baxtr 4y ago
Yes of course it’s by design. I just wonder why.
- mulmen 4y agoBecause you could deselect other peoples choices.
- ehvatum 4y agoHow do I go about deselecting other people's choices, if that's my specific goal? I can get whatever I want in Jira, but nothing in elevators. It's fucked.
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- eddd-ddde 4y agoThis isn't an argument, as you can also select other people's non-choices.
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- rahimnathwani 4y agoThat doesn't prevent people from getting to their destination.
- rootusrootus 4y agoThere's some incentive not to do that, however, because in many cases it will inconvenience you just as much as everyone else. But if you could just deselect all the floors between the current one and your destination, there's a pretty strong incentive there. Until someone punches you out, of course, because it'd be hard to hide and you're in a confined space with them...
- halfnormalform 4y agoElevators sometimes have an anti-mischief feature where they will deselect every floor if all the floors are selected in a brief period of time. The cab will slow to a stop if no new buttons are pressed. It’s kind of eerie, actually.
- mulmen 4y agoNeat! How do you know this?
- halfnormalform 4y agoThe elevators at my office were upgraded a few years ago and one of the elevator techs happened to mention it to me. I tried it out while alone, for obvious reasons.
- mulmen 4y agoCool. I was hoping for something other than "I exhaustively test all new elevators".
- darkerside 4y agoThat's a one way ratchet. Once selected, the fight is over. If you can go back and forth, it would probably get violent.
- mulmen 4y agoIt isn’t an argument. It’s a statement of fact.
- jaywalk 4y agoNot worth complicating the UX to address such a minor issue.
- allenu 4y agoThis is it exactly. It opens up the door to even more complexity in the design... Now that you can unselect floors, if the elevator is on its way to the 5th floor and you unselect it, should it skip that floor mid-movement? If there's only one floor selected, we'll probably want to disallow unselecting it while the elevator is moving, but what if you just hopped on and it hasn't moved yet? This would probably make for an interesting interview question.
- baxtr 4y agoMinor to you... Introducing a great experience is the job of good UX. Not simply limiting options and saying 'done'. I am sure there are better options to handle this. Seems like no-one has put the effort into it (yet).
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- jaywalk 4y agoUnnecessarily stopping at a floor for a few seconds is minor to literally everyone riding in a public elevator. But yeah, I'm sure that at all of the various elevator companies, over all of the years that elevators have had electronic controls, nobody has bothered to put any thought into this.
- bobthepanda 4y agoLimiting options is exactly the point. Elevators are supposed to be easy to use for the entire population, including the very young, the very old, those with disabilities, those not able to read or write the dominant language, etc. In these cases, it is simply the best UX to keep everything really simple.
- samatman 4y agoMaybe ask a woman?
- dejj 4y agoIn Marc-Uwe Kling's "Qualityland", reversing elevators, turning around subway cars, and flicking traffic lights is a level-skill obtained by accumulating social credit points. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Qualityland-Visit-Tomorrow-Marc-Uwe-Kling/dp/140919115X https://www.amazon.com/Qualityland-Visit-Tomorrow-Marc-Uwe-K...