A "pressing" issue

By Eddie_Lopez. Friday, 21. March 2008, 03:28:06

Minneapolis Institue of Arts

Note the contrast of the black labels to the facade- they "pop" against the background and attract the eye, as opposed to the actual buttons that blend in nicely. I'm sure I'm not the only person to foolishly press the black circles. It's an elevator, I think we should be able to get that UI right by now.

Special thanks to Michelle, who pointed out to me as I complained about the buttons/layout that "you used to take a picture of things like that and put them on your site..."

The end of fat finger syndrome?new take on easy transportation

Comments

Out of curiousity, do the buttons actually depress or are they simply touch sensitive?

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By WillYum, # 21. March 2008, 03:45:25

They do depress and light up after pressing on that little stripe at the top of the button.

I was having a conversation as I entered the elevator and wasn't paying attention all that much -and pressed the black label.

By Eddie_Lopez, # 21. March 2008, 14:06:46

So those illuminatable bars are the buttons, not the circular discs they rest on?

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By WillYum, # 21. March 2008, 18:32:45

The cirles on the right are the buttons. When pressed, the white strip at the top of each circle lights up (if I recall correctly)

By Eddie_Lopez, # 22. March 2008, 17:15:25

That reminds me of my toaster, which has a diagonal line of buttons with labels to the left of them, but the labels do no refer to the buttons that you think they do: you automatically assume the button to the right of the text is the one being labelled since you read from left to right and your eye continues on to the hutton, but in fact each label refers to the button underneath it. If they hadn't have chosen the stupidly ambiguous (but presumably "edgy") diagonal arrangement but gone for vertical or horizontal, the problem wouldn't have arisen.

By infinity-1, # 22. March 2008, 23:19:01