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The Hi and Lo directions on my range’s knobs (i.imgur.com)
submitted 3 years ago* by to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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I kept burning my food or wait forever for the pan to heat up and I finally understand why. Each knob has a different direction for the Hi and Lo (also why isn’t it Low).

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[–] [S] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I'm sure there's a lazy engineer reason. But as someone who does engineering semi-professionally, come on! You don't skimp out on UX just because it's easier to make it this way! There is a reason why Murphy's Law exists! And in this case it's actually a fire hazard!

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    As a UX designer who became an appliance salesman, I challenge you to invent better UX for these features.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago

    Well, for starter. Pick a direction for Lo -> Hi either clockwise or counterclockwise and stick to it.

    The rotating knob is great. Haptic feedback. You can see it’s off at a clan r from afar. It’s not an encoder but a potentiometer so each position always has the same function hard coded. Just make them all turn in the same direction.

    I would chose counter-clockwise as it’s easier to turn it that way for a right handed person (and that’s how the single burners are designed, all 3 of them (although the warm zone has a weird dead zone for some reason). Start on Lo until it gets to Hi then for multiple ring ones when you hit ring_1 hi and continue you get to ring_2 Lo and so on.

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