Mrs Beanbagmore shower shenanigans this morning as the hotel room shower doesn't have a shelf to put my toiletries on.
yeah sure they have their own toiletries in little holders on the wall, but i brought my own, which i prefer to use, for reasons.
Pozorvlak@mrsbeanbag have you read The Design of Everyday Things? A considerable amount of space is devoted to complaining about hotel showers.
@pozorvlak i have not. sounds like it should be a mastodon account
@mrsbeanbag like the one that posts random sentences from the CIA Simple Sabotage manual? I like it, though the book's still in copyright and I wouldn't like to upset Don Norman.
@pozorvlak does it have a bit about when the hairdryer is hardwired into the bathroom wall. thank you but i prefer to go and sit somewhere to do it and also somebody else wants to go in the bathroom and we have to check out in a bit
@mrsbeanbag not that I remember, though you may also enjoy his complaints about doors, light switches, cookers, and nuclear power plant control rooms: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things.html?id=heCtnQEACAAJ
The Design of Everyday Things
Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault, argues this ingenious-even liberating-book, lies not in ourselves, but in product design that ignores the needs of users and the principles of cognitive psychology. The problems range from ambiguous and hidden controls to arbitrary relationships between controls and functions, coupled with a lack of feedback or other assistance and unreasonable demands on memorization. The Design of Everyday Things shows that good, usable design is possible. The rules are simple: make things visible, exploit natural relationships that couple function and control, and make intelligent use of constraints. The goal: guide the user effortlessly to the right action on the right control at the right time. In this entertaining and insightful analysis, cognitive scientist Don Norman hails excellence of design as the most important key to regaining the competitive edge in influencing consumer behavior. Now fully expanded and updated, with a new introduction by the author, The Design of Everyday Things is a powerful primer on how-and why-some products satisfy customers while others only frustrate them.