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This interface has a few learnability issues, mostly with the home page. The choice to use icons to display the different machine types was meant to reduce the amount of text involved in the interface. However, the , but they might be confusing. The icons in the final product (if this design element remains) need to be carefully chosen to be as intuitive as possible. The "water bucket" icon for a washer is pretty reasonable, but the "box with a port hole" icon for a dryer is not. Such a box could easily indicate a dryer or a washer! The arrows muddy up the design with needless complexity; perhaps another way could be found to describe the state of the machines.

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