[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.