Showers and UI design. UI issues aside, why is it so hard to build a shower where the settings for freezing cold and scaldingly hot are more than a couple of millimeters apart?
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Showers and UI design. UI issues aside, why is it so hard to build a shower where the settings for freezing cold and scaldingly hot are more than a couple of millimeters apart?
Why and when did all taps (particularly in hotels) become cryptic?
grr!
http://www.theotherblog.com/Articles/2008/03/18/mo dern-life-is-rubbish-again/
tom smith - 14th December 2008 10:21 - #
So, I have no idea how this works but my shower has two knobs that control different features. Pressure (which also turns the shower off if you turn it all the way down) and another that controls temperature, marked in degrees C.
The temperature dial has a "safety" lock, meaning if you want to turn it up past the 40C mark you have to press in a button on the dial as you turn it up. The lowest setting is unmarked (I presume it's "cold water temperature") with the dial then starting at 37C and going up to 45C, which takes about 180 degrees of arc to do.
This is a thing of wonder that I would give praise for every morning, aside from the fact that by its very virtue it's become something I don't have to think about any more.
I think the previous
Mark Fowler - 14th December 2008 17:44 - #
Yes, in lots of way "knobs are good" IF you can clearly see what it is each does and which way is more and less.
There is a problem in this "locked temperature" approach in that my partner likes showers so hot that I think she's made of asbestos and so we're always jumping in the shower and screaming because it's too hot/cold.
Tom Smith - 16th December 2008 09:03 - #