Comments on: Common Sense Design

By: Jeff L

Jeff L — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:09:37 +0000

Funny, I was also left wondering where the fourth option of BACD was as well, though I still would have chosen #1 simply because it’s what I’m already used to from my stove at home.

By: Nancy Frishberg

Nancy Frishberg — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:45:45 +0000

Sorry that ASCII thing didn’t work well at all. (Carefully counted spaces are all collapsed to one space.)

___A___C___
_B_______D_

BACD

or
____A_____C__
__B____D_____

BADC

__A______C___
____B__D____

ABDC

By: Matthew Oliphant

Matthew Oliphant — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:39:59 +0000

Designers… give them an inch they take a mile. :P

By: Nancy Frishberg

Nancy Frishberg — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:37:48 +0000

+1 for Paul’s suggestion.

And I’d ask the industrial designers for a different layout of the burners, e.g., a slightly staggered front vs. back so that the burners are more obviously a mapping of both L/R and inside/outside. (Let’s see if I can do it in ASCII)

A C or A C or A C
B D B D B D

BACD BADC ABDC

By: Matthew Oliphant

Matthew Oliphant — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:50:29 +0000

I would have gone with the Twiki set-up: BDBD.

By: Paul Adasiak

Paul Adasiak — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:23:25 +0000

Given that A and B have to go on the left and C and D have to go on the right, there are two possibilities for each side: AB or BA, and CD or DC. Thus, total possibilities include ABCD, ABDC, BADC, and the missing one, BACD. That’s what I’d have chosen.

By: Matthew Oliphant

Matthew Oliphant — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:14:40 +0000

Obvious being…

By: Paul Adasiak

Paul Adasiak — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:58:12 +0000

The original quiz didn’t include the obvious fourth option?

By: Matthew Oliphant

Matthew Oliphant — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:30:55 +0000

I haven’t had a gas stove in so long, I don’t recall what they layout tends to be.

I miss cooking with gas. Alas.

By: Jay Zipursky

Jay Zipursky — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:28:51 +0000

I can’t wait to see if my stove adheres to the best design.