[d0gbread]

As a UX practitioner with engineering experience, I'm happy to see an article like this, but also a bit disheartened that in 2021 it's still a revelation for many that frustration, satisfaction, and cognitive load are key considerations in prioritization in addition to raw efficiency.

[bluGill]

How can you live? I took two classes in UX in college 20 years ago. I still can't walk into a kitchen without cursing the bad UX of the stove.

[sapsan]

Sounds similar to the consequences of reading Don Norman's «The Design of Everyday Things»...

[bluGill]

That book was part of my classes

[kwhitefoot]

Are you implying that all stoves in all kitchens are bad? At least that's what it looks like you are saying.

[bluGill]

Almost without exception. There is no way of knowing without careful study which burner will turn on when you turn a knob. (generally you know the side, but not front/back) Every time I move I need to figure out a different stove, and so I'm often turning on the wrong burner because I have the wrong habit. Most people think "opps, I'm stupid again" when that happens, but I have enough UX background to know that the real problem is the UX is terrible.

[kwhitefoot]

How often do you use a different hob? As long as it is not awkward surely once you have used it a couple of times you have it in muscle memory. Over the last 30 years I have only had two hobs so it hasn't been a big burden to learn a the correspondence between the five burners and the knobs on a new one.