27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (September 15, 2024)

JR Atkinson • Writer and Editor

Sep 15, 2024 9:00 AM EDT

Design flops happen more often than we think they do. How often do we make an error that could have been solved by a design choice? Everything should be intuitive. There should be no showers that we can't figure out how to turn on. There should be no pens that refuse to click into place. There should be no humidifiers that are too hard to clean that it prevents you from using them because you're afraid you're accidentally going to expose yourself to mold. There should be no dresses without pockets.

But of course sometimes form comes before function. Not everything can be ergonomic or utilitarian, some things just have to be aesthetic. But the images in this list somehow manage to be neither. They are neither appealing nor functional. But that's what makes them perfect to laugh at. So go on, scroll and see what we have in store for you.

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