Design Critique

Thermostat

manufacturer: Honeywell

Beneath the display appears to be a button to operate the thing...but it is not a button! You can adjust the temperature by rotating the housing. Sorry for the bad quality of the picture

 


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Placed by jaapleving
on Friday July 27 2007 12:00:00 am

Need Redesign?


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No

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Discussion (8)

  • wrote: 2007-10-13 16:07:00 I actually think this is a pretty neat design. A thermostat is not something you normally have to figure out how to use every time you want to use it. It comes with the house, you are baffled for it for the first week after moving in, then you gradually learn how to use it. They could have labelled it with instructions, but that would have been unnecessary visual clutter. Lightswitches don't have labels on them to tell you what lights they're for; you just get to know them. This is the same.

  • sander

    sander wrote: 2007-10-23 17:15:00 I have this product at home and do not find it confusing at all. When you havenÞt seen it before, you might try and press the button which is not a button, but after trying and failing, it doesnÞt bother anymore.

  • wrote: 2007-10-23 18:49:00 The "button" under the dsplay actualy is a Button, jst not on this type, wheno have aheaingsystem ta alws t, you can turn the hot water onor of with that button, i have one lie that a home and it works perfectly, go simpel dsign,their shoul be ore prodcts like ths!!

  • wrote: 2007-10-23 20:12:00 The design of this thermostat is in my opinion neat and simple. It actually looks a lot like the old fashion simple thermostat of Honeywell, where you had to rotate the disc too to change the temperature. But for the younger ones (I m 27, which is not THAT old...) it might be a little bit confusing at first

  • wrote: 2007-10-23 21:43:00 Used to have one of these, it took me some hints to figure it out also. just some arrows telling you where to twist to for cold/warm on the outer rim and people would immediately know to turn and whereto...

  • wrote: 2007-10-24 09:04:00 indeed we have the one whit a button the manual is just made for both types of devices :)

  • wrote: 2007-10-25 13:36:00 ah, that's what you see a lot. the same casing for two versions, where the cheapest one has the same buttons but is missing functionality. just as with the Nespresso machine

  • wrote: 2007-12-08 11:54:00 I did agree, because I thought of that myself, BUT: Today, I went to the thermostat in my new home, and i was wondered that there was a button!!! The picture on it was a tap.<br /> So, you probably have a &#039;cheap version&#039; ? ;)



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