To those who downvoted this: Do you care to explain? What's wrong with criticizing overly US-centric business? In the world wide web, being more international should be good for companies as well as customers.
Did I miss something?
Did I miss something?
I'm talking about people looking at "10-2,000 ft" and asking themselves "Uggh ... how much was it, again?" Then they google for some unit converter. Then they stumble over "5-lbs", google again, but abort the search and decide it is not worth the trouble.
This is simply a bad user experience for the majority of their potential customers.
The other option would be to try and get a mental "feel" for the size of a foot, 10 foot, what's 5 lbs of water look like, etc. I did something like that back when we switched from Dutch Guilders to the Euro, cause I knew it was going to stick around, so keeping a conversion in my head was just holding me back.
But with US units, nobody's switching, and further, there's no ubiquity in my IRL day-to-day life of things that are supposed to be exactly 1 lbs, 5 lbs, 1 gallon, 10 foot, etc. to calibrate with. The only time I come into contact with inches is in the abstract space of the Internet, where they mean nothing except a quick mental arithmetic puzzle getting in the way of what I actually want to know.