Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Everyday Usability - Stove Design

The stove in my rental home is a flat top range/stovetop whatever you want to call it. When cleaning up after dinner tonight, it occurred to me that the designer of this appliance should be cursed with having to have this in his/her home.

These things are difficult to clean anyway. If you let your water boil over, you'd better wipe it up right then - or else be prepared to get the little bottle of flat top stove cleaner stuff and scrub. Anyway, the design of this appliance is particularly dumb in that there is trim around the edge which means that all of the crumbs you try to wipe up, get caught in whichever corner you end up in at the end of your swipe. Brilliant.

Oooh, people will think this is cool 'cause it's flat. Nice try Designer of Stovetop dude - next time do some prototype testing!

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