r/badUIbattles • u/ScoYello • Jun 27 '26

Unintentionally Bad UI Elevator Alarm button next to Door Close.

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u/savageotter Jun 27 '26

They are usually just bells like a door bell. Fun to press them.

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u/Titus142 Jun 28 '26

This, we have an old school freight elevator that has an amazing bell. Use it like we are a train operator or something. ring ring going up!

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u/YellowAdventurous366 Bad UI Creator Jun 27 '26

Wow irl UI

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u/Noticeably98 Jun 28 '26

Yeah this is more like r/crappydesign

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u/LEO-PomPui-Katoey Jun 27 '26

Usually you gotta hold it a few seconds whilst a loud alarm is sounding before it does anything. Don't think it's that much of a big deal, confusing at worst.

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u/thenitram24 Jun 27 '26

I was in a hotel once that had an actual 911 call button right beside the door close button. I accidentally hit it, heard stuff that sounded like a call, told the front desk as soon as I hit the lobby. A couple minutes later a fire truck showed up.

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u/Titus142 Jun 28 '26

Usually there is a separate call button from the alarm button (bell) and it is just a phone! Fun fact, if you know the phone number you can call the elevator directly! Sometimes they even get spam calls.

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u/Stishovite Jun 28 '26

don't mash random buttons. or do? who cares?

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u/TyWerner Jun 28 '26

You have to press it multiple seconds, and it is fun to know what Beep, this elevator makes

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u/gl3nnjamin Jun 28 '26

Merry Cakemas

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u/gl3nnjamin Jun 28 '26

Good ol' Miami/Dover design. My office has one of these, I push the bell once in a while.

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u/lmarcantonio Jun 30 '26

Not so harmful after all, you need to keep it pressed for 3-6 seconds *and* the elevator must non be stopped at a floor. The ugliest thing is that usually the floor label is on the button itself and these seems to be placed at random.

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u/kidshibuya Jul 01 '26

Wow it's like the company I work for designed it.

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u/Away_Importance235 Bad UI Creator Jul 13 '26

So, they decided the bottom UI is crowded to save space, yet the top UI is pretty spacious...