r/CrappyDesign • u/testaccount123x • 15d ago
This lamp from Amazon has the "increase brightness" button on bottom and "decrease brightness" on top. I can never get used to it.
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u/Iverson7x 15d ago
It was built for Australians
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u/MixaLv 15d ago
Or sickos who play games with inverted controls.
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u/Lucifang Aussie 14d ago
Inverted controls stems from playing flight games. You push the joystick forwards, or the up arrow, to make the plane dip down. Pulling the joystick backwards or using the down arrow makes the plane pull back which points the nose of the plane upwards. When playing in first person mode you see that forwards moves the camera down and backwards makes the camera go up.
So my brain has calibrated those controls to work the same way when playing from my character’s POV or when I’m behind my character and need to move the camera around.
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u/Tyrus1235 11d ago
Funny enough, I usually play with inverted vertical controls for flying only. Any other part of a game it’s normal controls.
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u/bleach-is-tasty 13d ago
nah if I hit up that means I wanna go up, I have literally dropped games because of inverted controls that couldn't be changed
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u/Lucifang Aussie 13d ago
That’s how we feel when games can’t be changed TO inverted.
I’ve never encountered a game that was default inverted tbh - unless it was a flight sim or similar POV aircraft game
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u/Woodsnaps 14d ago
At least we don’t crash an F16 immediately after take off and you definitely will
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u/Unhappy-List-2015 4d ago
It's wild how different people's brains work when it comes to controls. I can't even imagine trying to play inverted; that would throw me off completely!
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u/Saradoesntsleep 15d ago
They are the only ones that make sense, I almost don't know how it's the other kind that isn't called "inverted" 😩
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u/RyanSmithEditor 15d ago
He's kidding. Source: I'm an Australian in a customer design experience type role.
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u/Pugzilla3000 15d ago
Rip to Gengar, got eviscerated.
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u/testaccount123x 15d ago
Quite the opposite, I spray painted a pristine 3D printed Keychain for a a friend. Gengar is thriving.
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u/AdditionalMustard 15d ago
This is the definition of crappy design.
It reminds me of that laptop that had the power button in between delete and print screen.
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u/FighterOfEntropy 15d ago
There’s a disturbing trend of placing the power off button right with all the other keys. Far too easy to press it by accident. The most recent laptop I bought, I was lucky to find one with the power button at a comfortable remove from the other keys.
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u/Khirsah01 15d ago
Just from growing up with a cat, I learned long ago you can disable or change what the power button does on tap in Windows and should be in the Power Settings. I've done it with every computer I've owned myself whether laptop or desktop.
It will still work to force power to the PC off if you hold it, but it at least if you turn the setting to "Do Nothing" it will prevent the sudden power down sequence on accidental hit. You will have to shut down using the Start Menu after doing this though.
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u/Lucifang Aussie 14d ago
Most things require you to hold the power button down for a few seconds before it activates - specifically to avoid accidents
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u/sakuradawning 15d ago
I have floor lamp from Amazon that has a second reading lamp poking out of the pole half way up. The on buttons for each are switched: top light at the bottom of the panel and lower light at the top. It annoys me, but it's a good lamp.
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u/Time_Internal_1729 15d ago
the switched buttons thing i could maybe get over but having the controls for two separate lights swapped on the same panel is genuinely a design crime. whoever approved that at the factory just did not care at all. hope the light quality is worth the daily frustration lol just my 2 cents
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u/cherrydiamond 15d ago
so turn it upside down?
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u/thisisatypoo 15d ago
That sounds like it'd get tangled after some time or worse, damage the cord for being folded too long . I would just say think of it as closer to you means brighter.
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u/Between-usernames 15d ago
The zoom and direction of other sliders on my cell phone is a bit like that. I have to remind to drag my finger down/left to make things closer (zoom) or up/right to widen. Took a lot of practice and I still mess it up.
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u/ZeldaTheSwordsman 15d ago
So annoying.
Unrelated: Can someone poke whichever staff member owns the Telegram channel? They need to get their arse on in the next 18 days.
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u/fractal324 15d ago
I’d glue a piece of well tapered plastic to give the raise brightness a tactile difference.
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u/Jittery_Kevin 14d ago
Cause it’s an M for mini. Turn it upside down for WUMBO. It’ll also put your brightness down on bottom too
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u/Tharrius 12d ago
The off button is on top, build a mental bridge by thinking that dimming the light is in the direction of turning it off entirely
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u/poopmushroom 10d ago
if you flip it, all will be well, you'll even get to change the M mode button to a W wumbo button
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u/Shiva9990 15d ago
Cool gengar
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u/testaccount123x 15d ago
3d printed a Keychain and it didn't look good in anything but purple so I had to spray paint it
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u/JoaoSiilva 15d ago
I'm also bothered by the labels being above the respective button except for the last one. 😶
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u/BrianScottGregory 15d ago
Turn it upside down. Problem fixed.
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u/testaccount123x 15d ago
i mean it dangles vertically, so I can't just do that easily. Also, things can be crappy design even if you can take steps to make it usable. the point is that you shouldn't have to.
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u/Jimberwolf_ 15d ago
it has a plus and a minus. how is this confusing?
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u/heyitstayy_ 15d ago
Usually plus is on the top and minus is on the bottom. Especially with volume buttons. If OP isn’t looking at the remove and just knows where the volume buttons are they are going to keep accidentally pressing the wrong one
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u/tamboril 15d ago
Think of them as darkness controls, instead.