Saturday, March 7, 2015

Who designs these things?


This is my eye-level view of the controls of the washing machine.  Bear in mind, the day I had the problem with opening the locked door, I was also suffering a pain in my side preventing me from bending down for a closer look. When I eventually managed to bend, this is what those 'buttons' look like close up:



In my effort to open the door I think I actually pressed the button in the middle, expecting that to be the on/off switch, which is really that weird-shaped flat silver thing on the left with a picture of an apple on it.   

What is wrong with having knobs?  Round, protruding objects not invisible to the human eye, such as the ones on the drawing in the last blog would be much more helpful. Are such sensible things now relics of the past?

Good thinking, Winifred - Hugo is likely to do anything, even in your house!!!

1 comment:

Winfix said...

Love the story of skyping Feyzi who is of course on European time, that is exactly what friends are for in my opinion. Never mind the time.
I have a 'Boche' washer which has even more buttons than yours and I used about three of them constantly.
I wish it would just say ON and OFF