{"id":6351,"date":"2021-04-02T02:15:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T02:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/?p=6351"},"modified":"2021-04-02T02:15:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T02:15:28","slug":"men-are-from-mars-women-are-from-venus-but-engineers-are-from-uranus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/02\/men-are-from-mars-women-are-from-venus-but-engineers-are-from-uranus\/","title":{"rendered":"Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, but Engineers are from Uranus."},"content":{"rendered":"

A situation repeated seemingly thousands of times around the world:<\/p>\n

a bunch of clever people sitting in a room somewhere, working on product development \u201clets add lots more complicated features! It\u2019s what the people want!\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, actually, no it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Dismayed to find just now that the spa pool that I thought I\u2019d turned on to heat last night is still cold. Somehow it\u2019s been reprogrammed to stay cold because it\u2019s Friday (\u201cSo you want me to heat up? Think again!\u201d) And so it is 99% of the time when you have an appliance that you just want to work – you\u2019re perfectly happy to just have the minimum number of buttons so that you can be sure it\u2019s going to do the thing you bought it for. But no, for some reason the manufacturers insist on putting heaps of buttons on it so that if by chance you press the wrong one you\u2019ll be stuck in a submenu and you\u2019ll end up cold, hungry, and bored in your expensive high tech home while your superfluity of over specced gadgets just laugh at you behind your back. Grrrr. \u00a0Even if they come with a brick of a users manual, that will be incomprehensible too, so it doesn\u2019t really help. User friendliness is for amateurs it seems.<\/p>\n

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You don\u2019t need a PhD in engineering to make me work – but it helps!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A situation repeated seemingly thousands of times around the world:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Ukf-1Er","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8581,"url":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/16\/power-play\/","url_meta":{"origin":6351,"position":0},"title":"Power play","author":"Interloper11","date":"December 16, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Our microwave is fabulous. 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