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
    8·
    2 years 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

      • duncesplayed@lemmy.oneEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Don’t come to Korea. Every banking transaction requires you to punch in your PIN at least twice with a randomized numpad. Well actually it’s a 4x3 numpad with 2 spaces randomly inserted into it.

        • edent@lemmy.oneOPEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          What?! That boggles my mind - and would probably break my brain.

  • Mane25@feddit.ukEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    In the era of “smart” phones and saved phone numbers (not to mention contactless payments) I use calculators much more than I dial telephone numbers. I think the calculator layout is very much the standard.

    • Karlos_Cantana@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I can type rather fast on a 10 key. Back in the day, I would have to run a tape on the hundreds of checks I would get every day. I don’t miss checks at all. I do get frustrated with the telephone style keypad. I’ve always wondered why it wasn’t the same as a calculator 10 key pad.

  • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
    6·
    2 years 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.

  • brie@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Typing in my computer password is pretty much just muscle memory at this point than consciously remembering the password (yes, I should probably be rotating the password). Part of me thinks that some usecases of passwords or pins could be replaced with “pass-gestures,” like pattern unlock on phones.

  • supermurs@suppo.fiEnglish
    2·
    2 years 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
    1·
    2 years 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.