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Honestly I think this is awful. Good UX explains the actions without having to use a legend to decipher it.

Triangle is bleach? Circle square is tumble dry?

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Dry Flat makes sense. As does the Iron symbol. But yeah some of the others aren’t as clear.

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Tbf the square could very well be a stylized tumble dryer, and in 90% of the clothes I own the temperatures are indicated by writing instead of dots. Also a normal user wouldn’t need to know about bleach or dry clean.

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Not to mention the stupid fucking dots that each have no consistent value

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19 points

The situation is awful, which makes the guide fantastically useful.

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i wonder if these are aimed more at laundry workers than home consumers, because that is a fair bit to memorize without it being intuitive

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Yeah, whatever settings the washer and drier came from the factory with seem to be doing me just fine.

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Any versiona that aren’t jpegged to death? Need to print and put by the washer so my wife can still read it.

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It would take all of 10 minutes to draw it in a vector program or trace it by hand, and that’s a lot faster than waiting for someone else to use reverse image search for you.

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[from a mr. lovenstein comic]

“Welcome to the gauntlet” *throws shirt in laundry machine on regular cycle*

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Yep, you survive a regular coin laundry washing and drying or not

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My jeans got a new one

Dry in Shade

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“Oh you want to dry in shade, you delicate fucking flower? Your mine dwelling ancestors would be so ashamed of you right now. They might even lose their rivets to see their fragile descendants. What’s that? You need some sunscreen? Should I put some moisturizer too while we’re at it?”

Is this much shade enough for those jeans?

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