[jjoonathan]

Labeled Buttons >> Unlabeled Hieroglyphs >> Morse Code Button >> Morse Code Side Channel

Why do I so often find products where the designers have chosen a less usable option even though size constraints would have easily permitted a more usable option? Here it's debatable, but every time I find a desktop app / website that has replaced labeled buttons with hieroglyphs in a hamburger menu I die a little inside.

Also, while this light bulb is bad, I feel like bluetooth earbuds still take the cake for having the worst interfaces. They combine the undiscoverable and difficult-to-actuate morse code button with a slow, obtuse interactive voice menu and bluetooth's unreliability and incompatibility to create a modern interaction hell like no other.

[gumby]

>Labeled Buttons >> Unlabeled Hieroglyphs >> Morse Code Button >> Morse Code Side Channel > Why do I so often find products where the designers have chosen a less usable option even though size constraints would have easily permitted a more usable option?

I assume the designers were responding to management's insistence of reducing BOM costs.

And by "designer" we're talking about EEs -- high volume low-cost hardware applications rarely have any UI team at all.