garote: (wasteland librarian)
garote ([personal profile] garote) wrote 2024-12-08 12:45 am (UTC)

Oh waaait I see what's going on here. I was expecting the red indicator to point in the same direction as the letter indicator.

They have designed the indicator as though it's the top surface of a compass, which has a fixed pointer in the direction of North, and rotates. But you read a compass by looking down at it from above.

This element is rendered in reference to an upright view: That is, a view where "up" is the top of the display, and "down" is the bottom. If you hold a compass the same way, North would point to the sky, and the compass wouldn't work.

Some designer has simplified the compass a bit too much. They need to either remove the letter, or tilt the surface so it's actually in reference to the ground, or both.

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