Products · Broad category
Digital devices
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2016–2020), in 3 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 Digital devices, 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 4 complaints
- Users can make mistakes reading the device, and the fix offered is documentation rather than better interface design2020-09-04
- Internal paper test creates confusion about the result2020-09-04
- Digital devices are finicky and unintuitive, and break within a few years2017-11-18
- Digital timers have terrible UI requiring many button clicks to set time2016-08-11