Poor design decisions on products
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I nominate smart phones/software that pop up with tooltips or info on features that you could use.
These tips always pop up at the most inconvient time just when you are using it. I'm trying to send a message - now is not the time to suggest a feature or tell me about something else it can do. I am there to do a single thing and now you are in the way delaying me and I need to cancel or close this stupid dialogue box.
How did that ever sound like a good idea - every so often interupt with some helpful advice.
A tip is not needed. Ever really. If I want to do something I will search out the feature. It's like an constant shop assistant following you round the store as you try to do your shopping in a hurry and getting in your way.
These tips always pop up at the most inconvient time just when you are using it. I'm trying to send a message - now is not the time to suggest a feature or tell me about something else it can do. I am there to do a single thing and now you are in the way delaying me and I need to cancel or close this stupid dialogue box.
How did that ever sound like a good idea - every so often interupt with some helpful advice.
A tip is not needed. Ever really. If I want to do something I will search out the feature. It's like an constant shop assistant following you round the store as you try to do your shopping in a hurry and getting in your way.
pistonheadforum said:
I nominate smart phones/software that pop up with tooltips or info on features that you could use.
These tips always pop up at the most inconvient time just when you are using it. I'm trying to send a message - now is not the time to suggest a feature or tell me about something else it can do. I am there to do a single thing and now you are in the way delaying me and I need to cancel or close this stupid dialogue box.
How did that ever sound like a good idea - every so often interupt with some helpful advice.
A tip is not needed. Ever really. If I want to do something I will search out the feature. It's like an constant shop assistant following you round the store as you try to do your shopping in a hurry and getting in your way.
I feel your pain started before smartphones. These tips always pop up at the most inconvient time just when you are using it. I'm trying to send a message - now is not the time to suggest a feature or tell me about something else it can do. I am there to do a single thing and now you are in the way delaying me and I need to cancel or close this stupid dialogue box.
How did that ever sound like a good idea - every so often interupt with some helpful advice.
A tip is not needed. Ever really. If I want to do something I will search out the feature. It's like an constant shop assistant following you round the store as you try to do your shopping in a hurry and getting in your way.
Richtea1970 said:
Those stupid squeezey Mayonnaise bottles, you always leave about a third in there unless you cut the thing to pieces to scrap it out 
I pour in some malt vinegar when they're getting low and give them a good shake. Gets nearly all of it out, except the last bit that sits on that stupid ledge, meaning I have to stick a finger in and scrape it out. Luckily there's only me that eats it so it's not an issue. I'm sure there are coatings they could apply to these kind of containers to ensure that the content slides to the bottom, but that would probably mean less profit for the manufacturers as people would be able to access the last 100g of product rather than binning it in annoyance and buying a fresh one.Stop / start functions on vehicles is one for the 'annoys me beyond reason' thread, but the poor design of the having the button on the far side of the steering wheel, positioned such that you can't get to it whilst stood outside the door. I expect this has got something to do with the European market where they all drive on the left and the steering columns are all the same regardless of their market. I would also add that requiring the clutch pedal to also be depressed to the floor whilst activating said button is also a poor design. Ignition keys worked just fine without needing to do any of this nonsense previously. Basically fixing a problem that never existed - same as the other guy above said about putting buttons, knobs and sliders on a touch screen.
Whilst on cars, rain sensing wipers are also s
t on every single vehicle type that has them. Either wipes too much and takes chunks out of your glass, or doesn't wipe enough and you can't see st. What was wrong with the self-set variable intermittency that worked just fine for every possible situation?
Whilst on cars, rain sensing wipers are also s
t on every single vehicle type that has them. Either wipes too much and takes chunks out of your glass, or doesn't wipe enough and you can't see st. What was wrong with the self-set variable intermittency that worked just fine for every possible situation?Dunno about other stuff but stopstart on the ford is a litany of clusters. Pull up to a junction, on brake briefly and wait for car from right to pass and look left, glance right again and foot off brake to go and clonkaflunk you've stalled out. Think WTF and now you're rolling backwards down the incline towards the car behind as no drive/off brake. So back on brake while it splutters into life again thinking you look like a tosspot and scenarios all changed. I can't believe this hasn't contributed to accidents.
Do the people who design this even have ever driven a car?
Do the people who design this even have ever driven a car?
pistonheadforum said:
I nominate smart phones
I'd nominate Smart Phones full stop. Not their functionality but their ergonomics. They don't feel right as a phone. They're awkward as a camera. And unless you have dainty digits, typing on them is clumsy. They're all things to all men, jack of all trades and masters of none.
Dyson DC40 vacuum cleaner. O/H wanted on one and against my better judgement I went along with her.
It's the most badly designed household gizmo I've ever used: fiddly attachments that keep falling off when stowed, awkward hose, crappy emptying mechanism, unstable when upright, nasty carrying handle, impossible to use on stairs and it's ugly; it's the only inanimate object I've ever hated.
Ironically my O/H finds it too heavy and never uses it so I have to do all the vacuuming with the nasty, horrible bd of a thing.
It's the most badly designed household gizmo I've ever used: fiddly attachments that keep falling off when stowed, awkward hose, crappy emptying mechanism, unstable when upright, nasty carrying handle, impossible to use on stairs and it's ugly; it's the only inanimate object I've ever hated.
Ironically my O/H finds it too heavy and never uses it so I have to do all the vacuuming with the nasty, horrible b
d of a thing.Quite a boring one but it annoyed me just yesterday so I'm saying it: the combination of the design of the bag and the design of the nozzle you're supposed to fix it to on my Screwfix own-brand Titan vacuum is utterly ridiculous. You might get a good seal (and so no dust leakage), if you're very careful putting it on and then don't move or knock the hoover in the slightest degree. However if a small spider scuttles across the floor in the same room then that's enough to make the bag come loose resulting in the inside of the hoover getting all stted up. It's baffling because anyone using it for 5 seconds could see it's daft and there's a super easy zero-cost design tweak that could fix it.
tted up. It's baffling because anyone using it for 5 seconds could see it's daft and there's a super easy zero-cost design tweak that could fix it.The mute switch on an iPhone for not actually muting the content in social media, so when I'm nosying at Facebook or Instagram reels in bed early hours something starts blaring out and now my OH is pissed off with me as she sleeps later than I do.
Also, the Apple Pay wallet for not enabling you to label bank cards in a way which makes it obvious which one you have active and easy to switch quickly to another.
Also, the Apple Pay wallet for not enabling you to label bank cards in a way which makes it obvious which one you have active and easy to switch quickly to another.
Riley Blue said:
Dyson DC40 vacuum cleaner. O/H wanted on one and against my better judgement I went along with her.
It's the most badly designed household gizmo I've ever used: fiddly attachments that keep falling off when stowed, awkward hose, crappy emptying mechanism, unstable when upright, nasty carrying handle, impossible to use on stairs and it's ugly; it's the only inanimate object I've ever hated.
Ironically my O/H finds it too heavy and never uses it so I have to do all the vacuuming with the nasty, horrible bd of a thing.
Get a Shark. They are much better and about half the price. It's the most badly designed household gizmo I've ever used: fiddly attachments that keep falling off when stowed, awkward hose, crappy emptying mechanism, unstable when upright, nasty carrying handle, impossible to use on stairs and it's ugly; it's the only inanimate object I've ever hated.
Ironically my O/H finds it too heavy and never uses it so I have to do all the vacuuming with the nasty, horrible b
d of a thing.Windows update……. Given windows is aimed at a business product …. WHY does it insist on installing updates in the middle of the working day?! No I don’t want to stop what I’m doing for 30 mins at a random time to let it install!!! What’s more annoying is when you have to do a restart because the computer has gone wrong and rather than the reboot taking 30 seconds it takes an hour because there’s no way of avoiding updates at reboot 🤬🤯
It’s as if Microsoft engineers have never actually worked with a computer before 🤦♂️
It’s as if Microsoft engineers have never actually worked with a computer before 🤦♂️
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