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I don't find the two-position slider switch confusing at all; it looks and behaves like a physical object - one of these: http://cdnsupport.gateway.com/s/POWER/SHARED/q0012508.jpg

The OP's controls are slightly more obvious visibly, but don't look as much like common physical switches and are more visually cluttered. The color-changing version doesn't resemble anything I've seen in the real world, though I'm sure it's possible to do.



Even the physical object is ambiguous -- do I slide it to the side with the label that represents the state I want, or does the label represent the state?


Except this design does not exist everywhere ...

In (continental) Europe, I've never seen it. And I find this type of buttons very confusing.




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