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We have a rather expensive tool at work. It's a underground cable tracer. The figure of 4 grand comes to mind as the cost. Here are my thoughts on the three most important jobs of a cable finder like this.
1) Is there a cable there?
2) Which direction is it going?
3) How deep is it in the ground?
The slick sales sheets say it can do the third item. The manual doesn't tell you how. It's certainly not in the easy features to find on the device menus and no YouTube tutorial that our low voltage guy has found tells how to do it.
All the meetings it took to design it, come up with a nice industry friendly housing to keep all the cool electronics in and many many meetings to come up with a user interface, and no one said, " Shouldn't we put the depth finding thingy here, where users can find it quickly? "
I swear when I retire I want to sell myself as a " User Interface Consultant ". Come on. The most used features of a device should be easy to find in an obvious place by the people who just bought it, not by the damn engineer that has just spent the last year of their career staring at it and knows where every capitol letter is placed.
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