Tuesday, January 19, 2021

The World's Most Notable Design Flaws


Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about design flaws that make it seem very obvious that the very people that design the products never actually used the products themselves. Many of us have encountered those various products that are advertised as making most everything in life easier, and then they end up being complete adversaries to that promise of an easier life. 

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Text - Brancher • 21h Here's a fun one. We just installed a bunch of new Kronos badge readers at work. The type you swipe your ID card to clock in and out. Everyone at work wears a lanyard that is attached at the top middle by a plastic strap, and your badge must always be displayed while at work. Anyway when you go to swipe your badge in the new reader the card reader slot is too deep because the lanyard attachment on your badge hits the slot and prevents you from fully swiping your ID so you h

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Text - ArtemisJQ • 21h S 1 Award I have a fan with a bright LED light that shows what setting it's on. Luckily, there's a 'sleep' mode that makes the light dimmer. Except another light comes on to let you know sleep mode is on, and that one is at full| brightness. Just... why? Reply 1 1.5k ...

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Text - Back2Bach •· 22h Friends have a doorbell that rings "dong-ding" (instead of ding-dong). It's not the wiring, but just the way the electric device was designed. Reply 1 578 ... +

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Text - willbeach8890•22h All tvs without at least the basic controls on the tv. Engineers must have forgotten the possibility of breaking or losing the remote + Reply 1 1.2k ...

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Text - theshoegazer · 20h Most job application portals on company websites. Forcing you to fill out redundant information, blanking entire forms if you miss a line or a checked box, not accepting common document formats, refusing to let you proceed without giving out sensitive information that's not appropriate for pre-interview screening (ie contact info for references). Clearly designed by people who were either recruited and never needed to navigate the website, or have been there so long, th

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Text - starcraftre · 21h My mother bought me a nose hair trimmer as a stocking stuffer. The blades ripped the hair out by the root. Reply 106 ...

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Text - Aphid61 · 21h BRAS. Straps can stretch out during a long day's wear. Whose brilliant idea was it to put the adjusters in the back where you can't see or reach them? Q Reply 1 1.3k 3 •..

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Text - Moist_Examination811 · 15h Toasters. Why oh why does the top half of the bread never fit into to it? These designers should go out , get themselves a loaf of bread & a toaster before they design another one. There doesn't seem to be any that come in a different size. Don't even get me started on the bloody elements- one side will be a light beige the other side of the toast will look like it's been toasted in a smelting factory. Reply 97 ...

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Text - edgarpickle · 19h I have to assume that people from Google use Zoom and NOT Google Meet. Reply 1 125 ...

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Text - JohnnyBrillcream · 21h Hulu's GUI. Tried it for a free week, absolute crap. Figure if you have live TV you'd want to see a guide so you can see what's on live tv. Nope, they recommended shows l'd like to watch. Eventually you can get to a guide but there was no way to just select GUIDE. |Reply 1 140 3 ...

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