Review a Quality Metric-Only Product
UpdatedMetric-only products have cleaner more intuitive designs than equivalent dual-unit and imperial products. If you want to contribute to promoting metric-only products, take a few minutes to post a positive online review highlighting the good design of a quality metric-only product that you've purchased and enjoy.
An effective strategy is to highlight the simplicity, efficiency, and aesthetics of the product you're reviewing.
Consider phrases such as:
- "I love to cook, and switching to grams has removed a lot of measuring guesswork."
- "Saving a few seconds with each measurement is a nice productivity boost."
- "The Celsius gauge is uncluttered and looks great."
- "The streamlined design is quite stylish."
- "The scale on this tool is straightforward to use and eliminates annoying imperial fractions."
Time is money, and you can help others save time by encouraging them to buy metric-only products.
Sample Product Reviews
"Using this is very easy and intuitive compared to the imperial version."
"Metric is so much easier than imperial... To measure metric you just count... and there's the mark."
You can help draw more attention to your product review by attaching a photograph.
"This well-designed scale is super streamlined and easy-to-use... No extraneous buttons or convoluted modes."
Product Photography Tips
- Be sure the product is brightly lit
- Check that the product is in sharp focus
- Crop the image to draw attention to the product
- Increase the "exposure" and "sharpness" a bit to improve contrast
- Resize the image down to a width of 1,000 pixels
- Save (export) the image as a .jpg file
Dual-Units are Evil
Dual-units sound like the best of both worlds, but unfortunately having two disjoint numbers for a single measurement is inconvenient and messy. Dual-units literally harm intuition and learning. Numeracy is improved by keeping it clean and just using metric.
For example, if a kid is trying to get good at estimating distances, jumping back and forth between km and miles will interfere with the kid developing a gut sense of either unit. Avoid unit conversions like the plague.
A similar phenomena happens when learning a foreign language. You will never become fluent if you do not graduate beyond translating sentences word by word. Translating, whether for languages or measuring units, is an unnatural, awkward crutch.