Products · Broad category
Consumer electronics
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2019–2022), in 6 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Consumer electronics, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
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 6 complaints
- Microwave buttons and digital controls are hard to use compared with older designs2022-08-15
- Users can't grasp nested folders or tell what is a button2022-07-15
- Z-Wave devices need resetting every couple months, so the user can't rely on them2021-06-28
- Devices glued or ultrasonically welded shut, so they cannot be opened for repair2021-04-19
- Shipped device software is poorly designed and user hostile2021-03-17
- Design trend replaced physical buttons with confusing, hard-to-use touch controls2019-01-28