Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Touchscreen appliances
Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2016–2024), in 10 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
Every issue, all time, most people first
Touch-only appliance controls are hard to use without lookingUnreviewed
20162026- Touchscreens are categorically worse than tactile controls in many everyday scenarios2024-11-04
- Appliance touch controls are inaccessible to blind users, with no screen or dynamic labels2024-11-03
- Touch controls are often unintuitive, so people struggle to operate appliances2024-07-02
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 13 complaints
- Touchscreens are categorically worse than tactile controls in many everyday scenarios2024-11-04
- Appliance touch controls are inaccessible to blind users, with no screen or dynamic labels2024-11-03
- Touch controls are often unintuitive, so people struggle to operate appliances2024-07-02
- Touch interfaces are very hard to operate in a kitchen2023-02-21
- Touch panels lack tactile feedback, making them hard for visually impaired users2023-01-24
- Virtual touch buttons lack tactile feedback and misread dirty or wet fingers2023-01-24
- Touch surfaces respond slowly, unlike older digital buttons2021-12-11
- Touch-only controls are unusable for a blind person2021-12-10
- Touchscreen controls have input lag and no tactile response2021-05-16
- Touchscreen appliance interfaces are worse to use than physical controls2020-09-20
- Touchscreen for only four drinks is less usable than simple buttons2019-10-05
- Touchscreen is buggy, unresponsive, constantly changing, and has poor UX2019-09-23
- Touchscreen-only controls lack tactile feedback and are harder to use without looking or with vision impairments2016-12-19