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by losvedir 5214 days ago
Well good for you for trying an experiment about it.

You might like the book The Design of Everyday Things which is about issues like confusing elevator buttons.

I just flipped through my copy, actually, because I wanted to quote a passage at you, but I couldn't find it so I guess I was wrong: I had thought one principle of good design was a one-to-one mapping of interface features to functionality. Two buttons doing the same thing would break this concept, but maybe it's not a principle after all.