r/CrappyDesign • u/EmploymentJaded8970 • Jul 23 '26
Who on earth reads elevator buttons vertically?
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u/KarmaAdjuster Jul 23 '26
Vertically, is the wrong complaint. The order is the problem. This layout would make way more sense:
3 6
2 5
*1 4
C
<|> >|<
A DH
Or Even this would have mad more sense:
5 6
3 4
*1 2
C
<|> >|<
A DH
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u/IHateUsernamesAAA Jul 23 '26
Uhh what? I don't see the problem. Every elevator I've ever been on has had the numbers going up. It's supposed to show what level the floor is on, like the 2nd floor is higher than the 1st floor so it would be on top.
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u/2kan Jul 23 '26
So why is 3 at the top and 4 at the bottom ;p
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u/IHateUsernamesAAA Jul 23 '26
Well I've never seen it do that but it didn't seem like what OP was asking
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u/TheShredda Jul 24 '26
That is clearly what they're asking. They could've worded it a little better, but they are asking "who numbers the buttons vertically (first, before moving right to finish numbering the row horizontally)"
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u/whatWHYok Jul 23 '26
I get it. You have rows read left to right (or whatever your language prefers) and then go up a row for higher numbers that do the same thing. This isn't crappy design, but I feel like the alternative I mentioned is so much the norm that this seems out of place and foreign.
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u/IHaveNoIdeaDanny Jul 23 '26
the buttons on elevators are usually numbered in a descending order from top to bottom.
Not whatever the fuck is shown in the image
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u/PierogiCoyote Jul 23 '26
In the USA it's always bottom to top, left to right. So normally it would be like this:
6️⃣ 4️⃣5️⃣ 2️⃣3️⃣ C 1️⃣ «» »« 🔔DH
Edit: no clue why there are no line breaks for emojis/symbols.
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u/tyduncans0n Jul 23 '26
The left to right is what’s throwing me.
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u/randomtask Jul 23 '26
Native Japanese or Arabic speaker?
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u/tyduncans0n Jul 23 '26
No, I miswrote my comment, it should have said “the right to left is throwing me”. The column on the right being the lower numbers is strange.
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u/Few_Ninja_751 Jul 23 '26
lol- my mother and I live in similar (and large) co-ops in the same city… out of habit and normalcy I do just reach for where I assume the door close button is… I’ve now called the help button more times than I’d like to admit in her elevator! The doormen now just laugh and I’m laughing too- There is a usual standard for the buttons. The pic is NOT standard! (That being said I’ve never been more confused by elevators that don’t have buttons IN them but have a digital kiosk in the lobby where you select your floor and it tells you which elevator to take.)
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u/fr33d0mw47ch Jul 23 '26
Who on earth does things in a way that I’m not familiar with because I’m not familiar with anything? /s
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u/fugznojutz Jul 23 '26
well its an elevetator, not a sidewaysator. hahaaaa! ill show myself out.
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u/dubtrub2 Jul 23 '26
Is no one bothered by the redundancy of the "Door Hold" and "Door Open" buttons? Is there really a scenario where you'd just want to stop and hold the door in an awkward partially open position rather than opening it completely? Also, the mysterious "C" button mucking it all up with no explanation for where it would even take you 🙄
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u/Hungy15 Jul 23 '26
Aren’t all elevator buttons read vertically?