Items that are just shit design

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Lever arch files. I’ve never known one last longer than 3 months before all the prongs misalign and the clip things due.

Why are they so shit and yet keep selling and selling?

My washer dryer dries for 90 minutes. If your stuff is dry in 15 because you just had to finish off a school uniform or something, you’re gonna be late. You cannot interrupt the dryer to check if things are dry early. At all.

My stupid, STUPID Neff dishwasher that beeped every fifteen minutes for two hours to tell you it had finished. Why the fuck would I need to know even once? It used to wake the baby. And me. I plugged it into a smart plug and took great pleasure in getting Alexa to kill it.

Womens clothes that have no, tiny or (worst of all) decorative pockets.

Lots more. Poorly thought out design really, really annoys me. My memory is no longer fit for purpose, though.

"Smart"appliances, I just want to put a wash on, I don't need or want another app to do my washing.

Car Park near me has FOUR ticket machines , most of the time none of them bloody work.
Oh but you can use Ringo ......

You can get a free 30 minutes but you need the ticket with your vehicle reg....and Ringo charges 40p.
Not the end of the world but it's a swizz .

Make-up cases that I cannot open, especially ones aimed at the more 'mature'client like myself lacking the patience to fiddle with a pesky clasp.

Printers

My stupid, STUPID Neff dishwasher that beeped every fifteen minutes for two hours to tell you it had finished
My Neff is quite civilised , one beep and the little red light at the bottom switches off when it's finished .

Wrap dresses

seriously, who, over the age of 30, would go out with their boobs hanging out?

Rainfall showers. They are literally impossible to clean without major effort.

@sjxoxo do you mean like this kind of bra? I never undo the top clasp, just do up the underband? Definitely have to breathe in though as someone mentioned…

You need one of these! www.bonappetit.com/story/bottle-scraper-flessenlikker

Mobile phone customer service security that insists on sending a security code to your phone when you've lost it / broken it / decided to leave them because you are no longer in signal range.

If I could receive those messages I wouldn't be on a webchat to you!

Also, Tesco have just started doing their value 24 pack of toilet rolls as a 12 pack of double sized rolls. But if you have a toilet roll holder that is attached to the wall but is not on a hinge, then the roll doesn't fit onto the holder until you are about a third of the way through.

I just know the idea came from a bloke who never bothers to change the bog roll in his own house and just leaves it on the back of the loo!

Charging cables

Oh and half spoon sugar. My most recent discovery by accident of DPs careless sugar. Just why! Just use half a flipping teaspoon.

Get yourself a pampered chef tin opener. Best thing ever. Lasts decades and no sharp edges on the can or lid. Has pincer tool to lift lid off so you never touch it.

And especially the horrendous ones that display your face right in front of you.

I've had a long tiring day and I need some milk. I don't need to see how tired and angry I look up close in supermarket lighting.

Fuck Off Asda

Noooo don't do this. Get a radiator brush, they are brilliant.

www.lakeland.co.uk/22322/microfibre-radiator-brush

Oh my god the beeping appliances! My dishwasher beeps constantly to say it is done, why?! Why does anyone ever need to know that urgently?!

İMO most things are poorly designed, would be easier to say what is well designed.

JLR and yes, coffee served to you
Sometimes snacks, if I take stuff in for staff I offer it to customers too which seems popular and we always have a giant fruit bowl

My local garage is actually really good, he messaged me to ask what he should put in reception as he wanted it to be family/women friendly so he's got a nice set up. I think a lot don't think about customer comfort

Fingleworm saucers. They say they have a magnetic base, but usually the top magnet fails within weeks !

Plastic supermarket milk bottles that leak if you like them on their side. Ffs, a bottle’s sole purpose is to keep the liquid inside without leaking!
Ditto virtually every children’s water bottle ever, they all just bloody leak!!!

Yes that! Sorted with a blog blob of blu tak.

Also Autocorrect. Need I say more?

Scented sanitary towels (Looking at you Always...)
Advertise to the world you're on your period.

Pasta packets that are made out of a particular kind of plastic that instantly rips down the whole pack. No other food is in this type of ridiculous plastic.

Also the tight plastic packaging around mascara, concealer, eyebrow pencil and the like. It has an oh-so-handy perforation that you “simply” peel down the item. Except it never ever ever works.