People Point Out 39 Popular Products With Design Flaws Everyone Has Just Learned To Accept

Playgrounds.

Somehow 90% of playgrounds were designed by people who haven't interacted with a child since they were one and have amnesia of their entire childhoods.

Let's make sure the slide is a dark color and angled in a way that it is baked directly in the sun for the majority of the day, that shouldn't be a problem, right? The bottom will be shaped so that all the gross rain water and dirt pools at the end for days after it's rained, so that will take care of that!

There are a lot of other toys and baby products that were clearly not designed by parents, but playgrounds are one of the worst.

30 thousand buttons on TV remotes. Personally, I use like 5 at most 😅.

Whoever set the arbitrary length of the average bathtub needs dangling out of a window by their ankles, IMHO.

Women's public restrooms. Older people and disabled need a bar to pull on to get up in all stalls. Seats need to be a trusted design not something to squat over or line with toilet paper. There need to bee multiple hooks so nothing has to touch the floor, for coat, purse, shopping bags. And wider stalls so you don't bump into your things. And toilet paper that you don't have to scratch for the edge. Maybe just bidets. Other countries have solved these problems (and many others) but we are stuck in our dysfunctions.

It used to be that the next tissue would effortlessly pop up out of the Kleenex box, ready for use. Now you have to reach into the box, fish around for a tissue edge, peel one off the clump, and hope you don't rip it getting it through that awful plastic portal.

Trying to place your cursor on iPhone texts. Like if I mess up a spelling two sentences ago, it is almost impossible to get the cursor to go the right place to make the correction. It highlights the entire word, or goes one or two letters over or entire words over from when I’m trying to correct. You can “drag and drop” the cursor too but that always seems to work worse for me.

Tabs on food packaging.

I think someone out there thinks they did a great job inventing something that enables people to give a slight pull and hey presto - bacon!

Sadly no. That person is living a lie.

Steel paint cans! They're incredibly messy simply to pour paint out of into a pan or cutting cup, then you have to messily try to wipe the paint out of the groove so that you can close it without spattering paint everywhere, trying to seal it so that it's not dried up when you want to touch up the room. But then when you do, odds are great that it's rusted inside and as soon as you pry off the lid it drops a whole bunch of rust particles into that paint that you needed.

Of course professional painters don't care about this, they are long gone when you need to open that can again.

My mind was blown recently by Home Depot's new paint system of plastic cans with pouring lids. Goodbye Benjamin Moore, hello Behr!

Where are my goddam files?

Windows, Apple, everything tries to hide the location where they're storing their files. No I don't want to default to storing on onedrive, I just want to be able to find my goddam files.

The toilet brush. It should be fully hydrophobic or something so that it doesn’t retain toilet water after use.

“Skip Intro” should be a setting, not something i need to select every 21 mins.

I understand that battery compartments needed to be made more difficult for small children to open (specifically the type of small children who put everything into their mouths). But was a screw the best idea? A microscopic screw, threaded into plastic, and made of the softest metal available?

The seal on bottles that has that itty bitty piece of plastic you’re supposed to pull to get it off. Absolutely never works. They should save the plastic and just have us do what we’re going to do anyway.

Volume on streaming channels. Can we all agree on what 6is in volume and just let everyone scale from that. Watching Netflix volumes is ok. Switch to Hulu and IT BLOWS ME OUT OF MY SEat until I can find the remote.

When trying to highlight something to copy and paste it elsewhere, why has the highlighting become less and less precise and harder to use? Sometimes it picks up a space after the words highlighted (even if no space exists). On some webpages it simply will never select the portion of text you want. Microsoft products, Salesforce, and online are all big offenders. It also seems worse in some browsers than others (one of the few things I don't like about Firefox).

Do people know what I'm talking about? This is on multiple PCs in multiple environments so no it isn't just that my setup is jacked. The UI just seems to get worse and worse.

Oh and if Microsoft can keep their hands off Notepad that'd be nice. I want a place where I can paste stuff to strip off any invisible markup tags/language.

Absolutely any product that has an electrical cord... it should have cord management built in. The worst offender is my coffee maker. It makes the whole counter look funny because the stiff cord will not stay hidden.

The human knee .

Bath bombs being shrink wrapped. Someone really needs to come up with a better way to package them. Getting them open often involves shredding part of the bomb.

The reseal sticker on ground coffee. They never stick. Not once. You always have to use your own tape.