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Those are terrible. I think I’ve had analogs in the physical world where toggles indicated state by the color exposed (green = on, red = off) but this tries to
by mc32 3y ago
Those are terrible. I think I’ve had analogs in the physical world where toggles indicated state by the color exposed (green = on, red = off) but this tries to be better by having both color indicator and text indicator) and you’re left deciphering their language a bit. Yes, it is terrible.
- teo_zero 3y ago> green = on, red = off Are you sure? I think the opposite is more common.
- djbusby 3y agoI have at TV that is red-lamp off, blue lamp on.
- dylan604 3y agowhere have you seen red = on, green = off?
- pwython 3y agoMost safety switches on firearms expose a red dot meaning the weapon is "ON"/ready to fire.
- DiggyJohnson 3y agoI agree with you on that, but I’ve never seen green be the contrasting or alternative color.
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- weebull 3y agoMaybe because a gun should never be treated as totally safe.
- teo_zero 3y agoIn electrical industry, red used to mean powered or hot or dangerous, green unpowered or harmless. All earth-leakage breakers in my area are like this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Schneider_Electric_A9D31620.JPG https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Schneider_Electric_A9D3... https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/sHYAAOSwu2ZkBk5~/s-l960.webp https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/sHYAAOSwu2ZkBk5~/s-l960.webp Electronics industry have diverged.
- Y-bar 3y agoIn security red generally means encryption/protection is active. And then there is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally_light https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally_light > In the active (on air) mode, tally lights are typically red. > Some cameras and video switchers are capable of additionally showing a preview tally signal (typically green) for when the camera is about to be switched to and become the main source of video signal. Once the switch happens, green changes to red.
- weebull 3y ago> In security red generally means encryption/protection is active. That's daft. You want to highlight (red) the insecure state, and reassure (green)in the secure state.
- Y-bar 3y agoReally? Do you want a real-world example have a look at US White House: > President Obama talks on the phone aboard Air Force One. April 10, 2014. > The Airborne Executive Phone has the red light on, which means it's a secure call. https://www.electrospaces.net/2017/01/the-presidential-communications.html https://www.electrospaces.net/2017/01/the-presidential-commu... It is further made more clear because NSA literally calls their secure network the red network.
- kwhitefoot 3y agored and green should not be used like that. A significant fraction of the population, especially males, has difficulty telling them apart. That's why mains wiring no longer uses red to mean live and green to mean ground.
- yabatopia 3y agoI’ve seen it a few times on the web with cookie preferences pop-ups, to set your tracking and personalization preferences. Dark patterns to confuse and trick website visitors into enabling all tracking settings.
- smohare 3y ago[dead]
- Jasper_ 3y agoThe intended analog is lightswitches with the text on them. https://cdn.thisiswhyimbroke.com/images/lightswitch-identifier.jpg https://cdn.thisiswhyimbroke.com/images/lightswitch-identifi...
- ptx 3y agoI've never seen lightswitches like those, but that's a terrible design as well, for the same reasons.
- nerdponx 3y agoThey're ubiquitous in America, but approximately nobody pays attention to the text because the position is what indicates on/off, where "up" in "on".
- HPsquared 3y agoHuh, I'd always considered that toggle switches are "down is on". (UK resident). That way it's the same as a standard rocker switch (the direction of rotation is the same).
- ummonk 3y agoI’d expect a rocker switch in America to also be the same as our light switches - pressed at the top for on, pressed at the bottom for off.
- nerdponx 3y agoThat's generally a rocker switches work on devices in America, e.g. guitar amps: the side that is pressed is "on" or selected/enabled. Last time I was in Europe (Portugal), I remember having a lot of difficulty making sense of the light switches, but it was one of those apartments where you have two or three light switches controlling the same fixture, which is always confusing. Still, I think the American light switches are actually pretty good. Maybe one day we will get a Technology Connections video about light switches around the world.