A sample case for choosing the buttons on an elevator

    by Truesoldier00

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    1. Original post was deleted because of rule 6. For context, I work as a project manager for a municipality and one of my jobs was to replace the library elevator. I ended up choosing the blue “8” with the braille.

    2. TechnicalBelt8635 on

      I love that it’s in a rugged case like a traveling salesman for elevators. Somewhere there’s a meeting where this thing gets dramatically opened on a table.

    3. Guess I’ll repeat my comment…

      Which did you choose?

      ![gif](giphy|9SIXFu7bIUYHhFc19G|downsized)

    4. Natural-Tonight1670 on

      I guess I’ll repost my comment then too!

      You didn’t do a very good job, missing a few buttons and multiple of the same floors.

    5. “can I get it just like that, a different type for each floor. The elevator is going to have a camera in it and I want to watch how many people we can upset”

    6. No_Squash_6551 on

      God, I hope the autistic man who runs the elevator special interest museum has one of these. 

    7. This is why public project budget overruns all the time, and bids getting higher and higher. We are paying a 6-figure salary individual to spend time and think what button works great.

      Not paying to the people researching the best buttons functionally, but someone spending taxpayer’s money to pick a style.

      SMH.

    8. A_Sneaky_Walrus on

      Number 1 with the circle seems to be the most common in Canada. Can anyone corroborate I literally NEED TO KNOW!!!

    9. Ok-Yogurtcloset-9183 on

      The last apartment building I lived in had the blue-ringed buttons with braille. I always liked those buttons.

    10. Manriki_Kusari on

      Does anyone else feel a little been annoyed that there’s two twos? I don’t like that. I wish I could just say “Selection number 2” instead of “yellow 2”. I’m not even sure if that’s yellow, I’m colourblind.

    11. much_longer_username on

      It bugs me that they’re not numbered in order, and that some of the numbers are duplicated.

    12. 7 is objectively the best. Light is separate from number and readability is retained if light goes out.

    13. Legitimate-Log-6542 on

      Are there buttons where you have to solve a math equation to know what floor it’s for?

      Don’t know the square root of 9? Guess you ain’t going to the 3rd floor!

    14. If someone presents me a case like that, I’m not touching any of the buttons until they prove to me that the buttons don’t do anything.

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