If it’s something you’re gonna be doing infrequently, sure - it helps you perform it smoothly and without much cognitive overhead.
But if it’s something you’re gonna do very often, then it’s okay if it appears a bit random at first, you’ll soon start doing it mechanically without thinking and it’s best for it to be designed around it. This will allow you to insert a smart quirk in this hole left by the lack of consistency. Like enabling you to clean your keyboard in this case.
Ergonomics often collides with common sense, and it’s ok.
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Meh, helps with accidental presses and it’s fine for the power button to require a slightly more deliberate action imo.
Turning on from full shutdown when you open the lid on the other hand sends me flying
Accidentally hit your laptops power button to turn it on?
Let me count how many times that has happened to me…
Nope, still zero out of many thousands.
You ever just burn electronics? They smell nice, y’know? I don’t even far goes the winds of the fiberstrong, and it does what it do to be.
To turn off? Yes, turn on? No
I could say consistency is a good design pattern.
If it’s something you’re gonna be doing infrequently, sure - it helps you perform it smoothly and without much cognitive overhead.
But if it’s something you’re gonna do very often, then it’s okay if it appears a bit random at first, you’ll soon start doing it mechanically without thinking and it’s best for it to be designed around it. This will allow you to insert a smart quirk in this hole left by the lack of consistency. Like enabling you to clean your keyboard in this case.
Ergonomics often collides with common sense, and it’s ok.