alt Hacker NewsI don't understand, though. You make the point that the user needs to read about the machine, but the very fact that the user needs to read about the machine points to bad design. A well-designed machine wouldn't have called a mode that user more energy and more water "eco".
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rpdillon • 11/06/2025
Right, and bad design is all around us every day. Learning about how your equipment works is a good idea!
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I didn’t say that the machine was well designed. I said exactly the opposite! The very fact that it is not well designed means that you cannot rely on your intuition when operating the machine. If you do not have some idea of how the machine operates then you will operate it badly. In the specific case the video examines, operating it badly means blindly operating it in the default mode when a different mode demonstrably works better.