Products · Broad category
Appliances
Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2016–2025), in 11 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Appliances hide controls behind long-presses and have too few buttonsUnreviewed
20162026- Appliances have crazy, unintuitive UIs with hidden long-press controls and too few discrete buttons2024-03-15
- Modern device interfaces are hard to use, making usable appliances a nightmare to find2023-12-28
- Appliance controls are hard to use, with underpowered displays and untested designs2022-12-03
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 11 complaints
- Appliances have shitty UX that the commenter finds frustrating to deal with2025-12-03
- Buttons are very hard for visually impaired people to find by touch2025-09-25
- Rotary knobs on appliances are barely usable beyond selecting time2024-06-13
- Appliances have crazy, unintuitive UIs with hidden long-press controls and too few discrete buttons2024-03-15
- Modern device interfaces are hard to use, making usable appliances a nightmare to find2023-12-28
- Appliance controls are hard to use, with underpowered displays and untested designs2022-12-03
- Touchscreens on appliances lack tactile feedback and have latency, adding downsides without benefits2022-05-25
- Button presses are ignored unless held down for a while2020-04-18
- Three buttons and custom menus become unusable for complex settings and lack consistency across appliances2019-11-04
- Updating the application requires manual binary download, FTP upload, and web login steps2019-03-22
- Physical buttons and LCD controls are poorly designed, constricted and less usable than a phone app2016-09-24