It's fascinating to me how many people here yearn for a simple set of controls. Two dials, maybe physical not digital. I feel the same way. I can't remember

It's fascinating to me how many people here yearn for a simple set of controls. Two dials, maybe physical not digital. I feel the same way. I can't remember if it was in "The Design of Everyday Things", or "The Inmates are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive us Crazy", but a story is recounted about trying to buy a usable video recorder. He assumed that the expensive ones would have solved the UX issues (like being able to set the time correctly!), but no. The more expensive ones had control interfaces for all kinds of useless functions and were incomprehensible. He just wanted something easy to use, and ended up buying the cheapest model.