The Pleasures of Poor Product Design

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35 points | by NaOH 3 hours ago ago

8 comments

  • eszed 9 minutes ago

    What's wrong about the glasses? I've been staring at them and trying to figure out why they're unworkable, as opposed to just a quirky pair of specs.

    • parallel 5 minutes ago

      Pointy bit on the bridge of the nose.

    • starmole 5 minutes ago

      the sharp point on the bridge is going to hurt your snout.

  • bcherry an hour ago

    this really reminds me of the "worst volume control" from reddit https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world...

  • ChrisMarshallNY 43 minutes ago

    I’ve always enjoyed the “useless teapot” that Don Norman has on the cover of DOET: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61KtiLw7BtL...

  • Gigachad 16 minutes ago

    I love that these are all fairly beautiful, stuff you'd really love to have if it wasn't fundamentally unusable.

  • jrmg an hour ago

    Now I’m wondering how you could create ‘uncomfortable’ versions of simple command line tools (ls, cat, more etc.) or perhaps shells.

    Emacs and/or vi, depending on your inclination, have text editors covered already, of course ;-)

  • keithnz an hour ago

    given the title, so may software developers must be living in bliss! /s