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[GGJaguar]

You have to be able to read Old Norse runes to know what it does.

 

[Nuuska]

Pure sound in - mutilated in every way out.

 

[GAD]

That's OK. In my experience most people don't know what clearly labeled controls do. On ANYTHING!

 

[fronobulax]

That's OK. In my experience most people don't know what clearly labeled controls do. On ANYTHING!

Which is why some of us go for simplicity. One pickup instruments, tone always at max or min and volume adjusted for the conditions.

 

[GAD]

Which is why some of us go for simplicity. One pickup instruments, tone always at max or min and volume adjusted for the conditions.

Meanwhile you need an engineering degree to use the oven in our new house.

It took me a week to realize that you cannot enter seconds on the timer. It’s not in the manual and it’s just assumed you understand that no one would bake something for 30 seconds. I like to be precise in my endeavors, dammit.

 

[Rayk]

You have to be able to read Old Norse runes to know what it does.

Too much for me at least at first glance ! Lol

 

[JohnW63]

< Slight veer>

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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[GAD]

< Slight veer>

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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UI is a bit of an angry passion for me. We’ve had computers and electronics for decades now; UI should not still be a problem.

One of the reasons I’ve always liked Apple products is because they seem to understand that a good UI is paramount to a good computer experience, but I swear since Steve Jobs died they’ve kind of lost their focus in that department. Sure we’re probably better off without Skeuomorphic design these days, but when I constantly need to search for the item I need in the ever more complicated control panel something needs to change.

 

[JohnW63]

"in the ever more complicated control panel something needs to change."

Ventura, right?

 

[Minnesota Flats]

Which is the "pillage" setting?

 

[GAD]

"in the ever more complicated control panel something needs to change."

Ventura, right?

Yes, but I was typing that on my phone so was thinking of my iphone at the time.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Which is the "pillage" setting?

Right next to Viking Funeral. (Supply your own boat. The dead dog is extra.)

 

[James Hart]

4 stacked dirt / fuzz circuits.... with very heavy symbolism is my guess!

 

[GuildGirl]

I want one......