Peeving Pettily

[willowisp]

All right, whose bloody brilliant idea was it to make the controls on the washing machine be pull-out while the controls for the dryer (which are on the same panel as the washer's so they were obviously made to work with one another) are push-in?

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[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

Sounds like yet another bad example for The Design of Everyday Things.

And from experience, once people get used to a poor design, they start to find it familiar. This helps them deal with it, but it makes it just that much harder to make any improvements on the design. "But it was always that, did you have change it? Can we get it the old way?" Arrgh!

[willowisp.livejournal.com]

But it was always that, did you have change it? Can we get it the old way?

We have a friend who works for Microsoft. He says every time a "Secrets of <Whatever>" book comes out, the programmers groan since they'll never be able to remove it.

When I move I'm getting a really nice washing machine and dryer set which both operate with push-buttons -- I already checked.