Archive for October 29th, 2005
Best User Interface Award
Saturday, October 29th, 2005
This should get an award for the best user interface ever devised for a microwave. I mean, look at it: it’s a dial. It’s accurate, obvious, intuitive, usable in a single motion, looks like a clock (our standard mental model of time), and it’s really friggin’ simple.
Why in God’s name did they ever switch to numbers? Someone in the home appliance industry please read this and bring the dial back to the microwaves of the world. People will think it’s genius and they’ll buy your microwaves, I promise.
It really is better, in case you’re skeptical. It is so easy just to turn the dial, there’s nothing to think about. Want to add more time? Just turn the dial more. It makes so much sense it scares me sometimes.