I'm not thick. I know it doesn't sound like much of a boast, but I'm pretty competent at this whole adulting lark. But it appeared that I had forgotten a 4 digit number I'd set up less than a minute ago! The security guard smiled wearily at me, "It happens to everyone!" She said. Which, [...]

A little rant for this Saturday about a stupid usability problem which will never get fixed.

  • sokkies@lemmyrs.orgEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    My pin is also a pattern, recently I paid at a restaurant, and they had a card unit with a touch screen, I suppose for fingerprint reasons; the numbers on the pad were randomised… took me quite a while to remember what my pin number was in tge end

  • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    So if all this work was done to determine that the phone layout is simply better than the calculator layout… why the fuck are we still using the calculator layout on anything?

    And screw you OP for bringing this up. Now I want to remap my 10-key to phone layout to see if that’s “better”… I already had important stuff to do this weekend that I’m totally going to ignore now because this irrationally bothers me that I didn’t realize this before.

  • supermurs@suppo.fiEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Interesting, sometimes I have a black out when I’m paying for groceries and can’t simply remember the PIN due to the keypad difference

  • arth@kbin.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    There are multiple secured doors at my workplace I have access to, and they all have a little sticker next to the keypad showing a telephone style keypad with the letters. Those are there to remind you of what numbers to press for the four letter word you chose to represent your PIN. When I’m in the security office and choosing a new PIN, because the keyboard numpad is different, I’ll ask the person to turn their desk phone around so I can see the numbers to choose my PIN.