I love this type of stuff. If you've a moment, you might like to check out a
photographic example I've captured of my office's water cooler, which must
be slanty design. You push one blue button for cold water, and two red
buttons for hot. The problem is, there are no cues other than the existence
of the 2 red buttons themselves to suggest that they must be pushed
simultaneously. I suspect this must have been deliberately designed to slow
down the process of obtaining water that's scalding hot...but instead, the
object's interface ends up feeling somehow unfinished.

...I have yet to think of a better alternative.

http://glpetron.typepad.com/photos/i_dont_take_orders_from_s/water_cooler.html
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