26 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (May 19, 2024)

JR Atkinson • Writer and Editor

May 19, 2024 9:00 AM EDT

We all make a typo now and then. We wouldn't be human if we didn't! I remember learning how to type in computer class in 4th grade. We would put orange silicon covers over the keyboards so we couldn't see the letters and then take timed tests. Do kids still have to do that or do they have an intuitive sense of typing because of iPads and such? Either way, I'd like to pick the brain of whoever designed the modern layout of the keyboard. Why the heck are F & J the places where we rest our fingers? What's so good about QUERTY? I've never understood why it isn't alphabetical. I know it has something to do with how often we use the different letters, but I feel like we would have learned either way.

Anyway, I digress. A typo is forgivable, but these… these are on a different level. Take a scroll and see for yourself.