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Labels are dated, please forget making the icons better. According to Statista, 80% of the world’s population owns a smartphone. Just add a link to the instructions and have translations in plain language that are standardized; that is manufactures/brands just reuse the standard types of instructions that are relevant.
Some of these are better (the bleach one being the most obvious) but most of them are worse or neutral. If I don't know what a line under the washing machine means, how am I supposed to know what the 2nd button means. The line is at least more visible. It's similar for the iron. Maybe dots as temperature isn't obvious, but it's about as clear as the thermometer, is easy to read, and matches the icons on the iron itse…
Some of these are better (the bleach one being the most obvious) but most of them are worse or neutral. If I don't know what a line under the washing machine means, how am I supposed to know what the 2nd button means. The line is at least more visible. It's similar for the iron. Maybe dots as temperature isn't obvious, but it's about as clear as the thermometer, is easy to read, and matches the icons on the iron itse…
Or does that just happen on European irons?
Labels are dated, please forget making the icons better. According to Statista, 80% of the world’s population owns a smartphone. Just add a link to the instructions and have translations in plain language that are standardized; that is manufactures/brands just reuse the standard types of instructions that are relevant.
Does anyone not care about these symbols? There could be so many permutations of options in a pile of clothing that you’d end up having to do so many loads. I just throw everything in and hope for the best.
Most of the time I have just used the standard wash setting, then air dry if sunny or machine dry if raining.
I’m not even sure how temperature influences washing. I’ll have to read about that.
How is embedding a representation of what a washing machine looks like now makes them more universal or recognisable?
Despite the couple of paragraphs pontificating about what good icons should be, most of them are much worse than the cleaner, simpler, older ones. The drying ones are more descriptive, but less legible.
Also as other commenters have said it will do a much worse job when the fabric is faded or somebody without a 20/20 vision.
I think somebody else needs to take a shot at this again.
Laundry symbols make no sense... So let's get rid of them! Let's simply make all clothes compatible with a regular wash and tumble dry process. If the clothes use a dye that isn't waterproof, use a different dye. If the fabric is too fragile to withstand spinning, use a stronger fabric. If a material can't withstand the heat of a dryer, use better material. Material science has come so far in the past 100 years that…
Computers make no sense! So let's simplify them. Let's just have one kind of laptop, desktop, server, and phone. With the same operating system.
Why are we still using so many different kinds of computers?