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• BHSPitMonkey 4mo ago
  I think there's a big difference between jazz and corporate landing pages. Should we be surprised or shocked when different brands of microwave ovens have very similar controls?
  • georgemcbay 4mo ago
    > Should we be surprised or shocked when different brands of microwave ovens have very similar controls? No, but OTOH I'd be a little bit surprised and confused if someone who designed microwave oven controls wrote a self-important blog post about how skillfully they copied another's design.
  • adamddev1 4mo ago
    > "I think there's a big difference between jazz and corporate landing pages." Hard agree. I had to laugh at that sentence. I realized it wasn't really a fair analogy but also just kind of going off the copywriting example above. It's interesting how helpful this kind of thing is for different disciplines.
  • robocat 4mo ago
    Perhaps there has been some convergence towards microwave usability that I haven't experienced yet. Microwave oven keypad controls are a terrible example: I've had some terrible troubles attempting to use ones that force you to set power level - half the time start isn't even obvious... I bought one with a timer knob and a power knob that is mostly usable (but still poorly designed in some ways). Usable enough that I bought the same model for my parents. I would like the power level to be a slider not a digital knob, even though the knob is an improvement over a keypad.