{"id":1811,"date":"2021-11-17T22:45:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T22:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2021-11-18T18:34:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T18:34:50","slug":"a-button-that-works-half-of-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=1811","title":{"rendered":"A kettle with a hot metal lid and the button that works half of the time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recently bought a kettle which is nicely designed and it matches the toaster. It operates like this: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>To open the metal lid the black button needs to be pressed and the lid pops open. <\/li><li>To close the lid, a metal part of the lid needs to be pressed down (since closing it with a finger on the button does not work &#8212; that&#8217;s for opening it).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This becomes a problem if I need more than one kettle worth of water. So I need to boil one after another. The metal lid heats up and it&#8217;s impossible to touch it without being burnt. Using a kitchen towel works. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder how the design team did not test this out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211117_114556229-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211117_114556229-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211117_114556229-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211117_114556229-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211117_114556229-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211117_114556229-1-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211117_114556229-1-940x705.jpg 940w, https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211117_114556229-1.jpg 1210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Toaster and kettle &#8211; black and white. The kettle has the black button on the top. When pressed, the lid pops open. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211117_114923002-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211117_114923002-2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211117_114923002-2-768x1025.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211117_114923002-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211117_114923002-2-520x694.jpg 520w, https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211117_114923002-2.jpg 907w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The lid with some condensed drops of water on it after emptying it and filling it with new water to be heated up.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211117_114626663-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211117_114626663-2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211117_114626663-2-768x1025.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211117_114626663-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211117_114626663-2-520x694.jpg 520w, https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211117_114626663-2.jpg 907w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>But they still look nice.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently bought a kettle which is nicely designed and it matches the toaster. It operates like this: To open the metal lid the black button needs to be pressed and the lid pops open. To close the lid, a metal part of the lid needs to be pressed down (since closing it with a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-13-design","category-5-physical-interfaces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1828,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions\/1828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}