Timeline for Why do showers have "hot" and "cold" knobs rather than "temperature" and "quantity" knobs?
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| Jul 22, 2015 at 23:07 | comment | added | Stijn de Witt | @jamesqf So true! If it were up to me, using touch screens for these things would be banned! Insane design to change something as simple as turning a knob to something you have to look at to control... in a car! | |
| Apr 8, 2015 at 19:07 | comment | added | jamesqf | @Scott: No, it's more like the "manual heater & audio controls work just fine, and provide tactile feedback, so why should I have to do everything on a touchscreen that forces me to take my attention away from the road?" argument. | |
| Apr 7, 2015 at 4:47 | comment | added | Scott - Слава Україні | (Cont’d) … Here is a similar one, with a knob that you turn counter-clockwise for hot and clockwise for cold, and push it backwards (away from you) for more water and pull it toward you for less. This could be translated into a wall-mounted knob that would be suitable for use in a shower. I believe that such a design (interface) would be reasonably easy to learn. | |
| Apr 7, 2015 at 4:47 | comment | added | Scott - Слава Україні | (Cont’d) … Regarding question 2: two identical knobs side-by-side may be the worst possible design. tillinberlin’s answer shows a faucet with a “hand gear” that you move left for hot, right for cold, up for more water, and down for less. (I suggest that “handle” or “lever” might be a better term; its functionality is very similar to that of a joystick.) … (Cont’d) | |
| Apr 7, 2015 at 4:45 | comment | added | Scott - Слава Україні | This sounds like the “The Edsel was terrible, so let’s just not have cars” argument. There are two questions: (1) should the controls be for Hot and Cold, or should they be for Temperature and ‘Quantity’ (i.e., pressure, volume, or flow rate)? And (2) if they are Temperature and Pressure, how should they be designed? … … (BTW, as H2CO3 pointed out, question 1 is essentially equivalent to “Should we use Cartesian coordinates or polar coordinates?”) … (Cont’d) | |
| Apr 5, 2015 at 6:58 | history | answered | Stephan Branczyk | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
