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The reason I know it's great is because all the others I've ever used are inferior.
This one is in two distinct pieces which you place together to work. The metal is kind of grey and dull but it's incredibly strong.
It's easy to clean. Indestructible. Powerful.
One example of quality design which I gleaned from reading Don Norman's "The Design Of Everyday Things" is the metal plate I've frequently seen on doors which are meant to be pushed. The only affordance of such a plate is its push-ability, and the fact that someone actively installed a metal plate (instead of just relying on the door's natural flatness), as well as its location at the point of maximum leverage (all t…
While this is true I often wonder why so many of those doors don't just open towards both sides. They exist and I think it's the best compromise because it's just not possible to use it the wrong way.
https://www.mcmaster.com/ Fast, snappy, responsive. No banners or cookie prompts, doesn't ask my to sign up for a newsletter or an account to continue and see more selection, it doesn't load in megabytes of JavaScript to show me products. Plus, responsive as all heck, and there isn't any bullshit prompts like "click here to see our selected offerings" or "check out our value products here" Like, from. The short url,…
There is a big banner on mobile, asking to download the app.
Also the banner is easily dismissed, and doesn't come back when you revisit the site.
The Kinesis Advantage keyboard [1]. The height of the keys in each column are different because, well, the length of each of our fingers is different. It’s so naturally comfortable that it goes unnoticed and one’s fingers just fall into the right position. Placing one’s fingers offset left or right is so obviously uncomfortable that it’s basically impossible to have off-by-one typos. There is a lot of subtly well-des…
I use a custom keyboard with a similar columnar stagger. In addition it's small enough that I can reach every key without moving my hands, which means my accuracy is noticeably better. There's no chance I'm ever going back voluntarily. Typing all kinds of symbols all day just doesn't get more comfortable. This is why I'm always so annoyed by all the "qwerty vs. dvorak" arguments. It's pretty much the least problemati…
- it’s waterproof, so easy to clean
- it has a single physical button, nothing else
- it has a small flat stand on the back, so I can put it somewhere horizontally and it won’t roll, and the brush won’t touch the surface
- the heads can be easily changed, so we share the same toothbrush with my SO but have our own brush. The heads have a different color ring so they’re easy to recognize
- the charging station is small, holds in place and is generally painless. You just put the toothbrush on it and that’s it
- the battery itself easily lasts 2 weeks
- when using it the brush buzzes every 30 seconds but that’s it, you can ignore it if you wish. If you accidentally turn the brush off but turn it back on quickly, it remembers where you were and won’t start the buzzes from the beginning
- the best thing about electric toothbrush is that they gracefully degrade to a normal toothbrush. I love graceful degradation
I talked about users of more expensive electric toothbrushes (100-200$), but I’m confident mine is the best.
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I forgot about this. Sansa with RockBox was the best.
Same here, I bought 4 more when they discontinued it, gave away a couple and the rest died by now. Why can't a company make something like this again?
The more expensive audiophile-orientated players use more power-hungry mips SOCs running linux, and the product is then designed to justify the expense and bulky battery.
*nix OS's and their terminal with various commands. The idea of pipe operator in terminal is just mind blowing, high praise to the guys who came up with this, they literally included FP concepts inside a terminal back in the late 60's.
One example of quality design which I gleaned from reading Don Norman's "The Design Of Everyday Things" is the metal plate I've frequently seen on doors which are meant to be pushed. The only affordance of such a plate is its push-ability, and the fact that someone actively installed a metal plate (instead of just relying on the door's natural flatness), as well as its location at the point of maximum leverage (all t…