Usability Hell

How many people have a cooker top?

It’s a trend that’s really caught on in recent years; they’re fairly popular.

Why do they all look like that above? (forget the mess - I’m talking knobs).

Perhaps I’m slow; I look at the little symbols next to the knob every time I use one - even cookers I’ve used hundreds of times. This is worse where it’s rubbed off the knob* - which also always seems to happen.

Simple solution - arrange the knobs in a square - like the cooker. Problem solved. No need for symbols at all.

Lets say, conservatively, 100 million people spend 5 seconds looking at these symbols every day. That’s over 6 million working days lost worldwide every year - or the total GDP or Sweden (and Sweden makes some good shit).

Oh the humanity… .

* that’s what she said.