The World's Most Notable Design Flaws

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Jan 19, 2021 10:00 AM EST

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 - Text - Ipomoeatricolor · 20h The system to get help with mental health, like anxiety and depression. For someone who has a really hard time with making phone calls, it's tough to get help when every step requires more phone calls and appointments. Not to mention how expensive counselling is. Q Reply 4 614 3 •..
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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 - Text - Suck-My-Clock · 20h McGraw-Hill products. I can't think of anything more infuriating and less educational. My teachers use them for absolutely everything. Reply 163 3 ...
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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 - Text - product_52403· 16h Bathrooms in brand new (and fairly expensive) homes seem to be designed for women by men who have no idea what the majority of women (and some men) really need. 1. nice vanities but no real storage. 2. walk in closets that you access through the bathroom, so if one of you is using the toilet, you either walk in on them or wait until they're finished before you can get to the closet. 3. beautiful walk-in showers with completely inadequate space for shampoo and etc
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    Text - Text - Illustrious-Tea-8920 • 17h Scented sanitary pads They smell awful, like old lady perfume, but smell even worse when combined with menstral blood. Many people are allergic to the fragrance and they increase the risk of thrush and UTI infections. Always has literally made all of their pads in the UK scented in one way or the other. Why? Don't they realise that people are actively boycotting their brand because of this? Reply 1 271 ...
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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 - Text - inflatablefish · 22h I once stayed in a "trendy" "designer" hotel which was clearly designed by someone who had never stayed in a hotel. The only lights were dim as hell mood lighting, and the windows were floor-to-ceiling with blackout blinds but no net curtains, so if you needed to see anything clearly then your only option was to have zero privacy. Never staying there again! E Q Reply ↑ 307 3 ...
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    Text - Text - FructusAutemSpiritus · 16h Every single bathroom. I swear the people who design bathrooms have never used one in their lives. I've had a bathroom where the towel rack was on the opposite side of the room from the shower, so every time l'd have to climb out of the shower, walk across the room, get the floor sopping wet, and grab a towel. I've had a bathroom where the shower door opened into the wall with the towel rack meaning I had to awkwardly reach around it in order to get a tow
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    Text - Text - Old-Man-of-the-Sea • 20h I purchased a Hyundai from the first shipment to the USA in 1986. When I went to change the oil the first time I found out that you must be under the car to loosen and remove the filter, but I couldn't get it out of the tubing and wiring from underneath. So with the oil filter dripping oil all over me I had to loosen it up from underneath and then come in from the top to get it out. Same process in reverse to put in the new filter. Reply 35 ...
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    Text - Text - azepha • 21h The dishwasher in my apartment is perfectly designed so that the wire edge of the rack gets caught in between the tines of a fork every time you close it. Every. single. time. I can only assume the company that made it never tried running it with an actual load of dishes and silverware inside. Reply 159 ...
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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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