27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (June 23, 2024)

JR Atkinson • Writer and Editor

Jun 23, 2024 9:00 AM EDT

There are so many ingenious designs that we take for granted every day. Starting with the wheel. I'll bet that no matter how you got to work today, it probably involved a wheel of some sort. Even if it was just a move on a wheely chair from your bedroom to your desk. The next important invention is electricity. Much of our world wouldn't be possible without it. Without electricity, there would be no memes, and I'd be out of a job unless we started carving rage comics into the sides of mountains. Then, the smartphone. How else would we fritter away our time watching cat videos and searching for good tweets? This is the stuff of life.

But some designs aren't worth mentioning, and here are a few of them. They might not make it in the annals of design usefulness, but they sure are funny to scroll through.