The pleasures of poor product design

7 comments

• bcherry 1 hour ago
  this really reminds me of the "worst volume control" from reddit https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world...
• userbinator 33 minutes ago
  IC: With AI getting bigger and more controversial and so on, have you used AI to create any of these designs?

  That is an interesting point to bring up, because this type of "almost but not quite right" is exactly what AI seems to naturally create.
• ChrisMarshallNY 1 hour 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...
• eszed 50 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.
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  • jaden 39 minutes ago
    The sharp angle of the bridge would dig into your nose.
  • parallel 45 minutes ago
    Pointy bit on the bridge of the nose.
  • starmole 45 minutes ago
    the sharp point on the bridge is going to hurt your snout.
• Gigachad 56 minutes ago
  I love that these are all fairly beautiful, stuff you'd really love to have if it wasn't fundamentally unusable.
• jrmg 1 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 2 hours ago
  given the title, so may software developers must be living in bliss! /s