Patent ID: 8713975

Claim:
A laundry treating appliance for treating laundry received within a treating chamber of the appliance according to at least one cycle of operation, from a plurality of cycles of operation, having multiple operating parameters, the laundry treating appliance comprising: a plurality of controllable components operable to implement the cycle of operation; a user interface comprising: a cycle selector for selecting a cycle of operation from the plurality of cycles of operation; and a performance goal selector comprising: an image display on which is provided a performance goal landscape subdivided into multiple goal areas, each goal area representing a different performance goal for at least one of the plurality of cycles of operation; and a user-controllable weighting selector having a bound weighting area moveable relative to the performance goal landscape; and a control system operably coupled to the user interface and comprising: a weighting module operably coupled with the user interface and comprising a set of executable instructions to determine a goal weighting based on a relative proportion of at least one of the goal areas within the weighting area; and a controller configured to set a value for at least one of the multiple operating parameters based on the determined goal weighting and to control at least one of the plurality of components to implement the cycle of operation based on the set value for the at least one of the multiple operating parameters; wherein the user may control the performance goals of the cycle of operation by moving the weighting selector relative to the landscape to change the goal weighting by changing a relative proportion of the goal areas within the weighting area.