I was browsing through my RSS reader of choice, and came upon this blog by Naydne:
The taps in a shower are a really bad user experience. They're not standardized at all. The taps in this hotel room at the Westin in Bellevue, Washington, are nothing like the taps in a hotel room at the W in San Francisco. Every time I encounter a hotel room, I have to determine how to take a hot (not cold, not burning) shower. The taps don't give me an indication of how to work them. I have to figure out which way to turn them.
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Wouldn't it be nice if there were a button near your shower that you could push and it would automatically give you a shower of the right water temperature? My car remembers where I like the seats, why can't my shower remember how hot I like the water to be?
Well spoken!
My thought was "didn't I say something about this before"? Then, after a quick search, I find nothing, which means it's one of many topics I wanted to blog about but did not, mostly because I'm lazy. I suppose there's no problem with two people talking about something like this, but the blog world does seem like first come = most insightful, no? Gaping Void must have some great drawing about this phenomenon... I wonder what keyword I would use to find it.
