So! This is pretty bad – but have you noticed worst? Any horrible designs in your life that irk you? Snap a pic and drop a link in the comments – we love good design but we HULK RAGE HATE bad design. [via Reddit]
So! This is pretty bad – but have you noticed worst? Any horrible designs in your life that irk you? Snap a pic and drop a link in the comments – we love good design but we HULK RAGE HATE bad design. [via Reddit]
Tim
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 10:31 AMFreakin’ Outlook putting the send and attach buttons right next to each other. Although that does give you a nice excuse for when you send something without an attachment and have to quickly recover.
Ben
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 10:44 AMOne was a laptop I had to deal with once that used the same connector as S-video for power. This would have been ok but it had S-video-out as well! So of course the owner had plugged power into the S-video-out port and let the magic smoke out. (Sorry, got no photo, this was a 486 or early Pentium machine from some years ago)
Ben
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 10:49 AMAnother power-related bad design I’ve seen is when I worked in a chain take-away food store. We got ADSL connected (for faster communication with head office) and was supplied with separate modem and router, both from the same company (IIRC D-link, it was almost 10 years ago so a little hazy). They both had the same DC power socket, but opposite polarities! So of course if they were both disconnected, one had to be super-careful reconnecting them.
Mr Biggles
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 11:19 AMPutting that stupid Fn button to the left of the Ctrl button… Although most manufacturers have now worked that one out.
Karl Alberto
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 11:30 AMLenovo hasn’t gotten that message with those new X220′s though…
Rory Dickson
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 11:31 PMActually, it’s been a while since they put the Fn key to the left of Ctrl :\
Scott
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 11:24 AMThose expensive Belkin power boards with plug points in individual holes on the board meaning if the plastic on the end of the plug is too big or square you cant plug it in. Ironically there points are spaced out nicely over the board and without providing each point in a recess would be ideal for odd shaped power plugs =S
Matt
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 11:28 AMWhen txting on an iPhone, the send button is so close to the other letters that you hit it when your casually typing… and once it sends…it cant be stopped.
(without the help of jailbreaking ofcourse)
Karl Alberto
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 11:32 AMSo! This is pretty bad – but have you noticed worst?
I blame the QWERTY layout for that. If not, the education system.
So yes, I have noticed worse.
Darren Godbold
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 2:18 PMhaw haw haw haw haw haw haw
Daniel
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 11:49 AMMy first Epson desktop had the powerbutton directly over the floppy eject button.
So many times I had to do a one handed system save and close down while I held my finger on the now depressed power-button.
Back then they were actual power buttons.
James Finnigan
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 3:20 PMHaha, I remember having to do this as well. Agh, the good old days
Matt Larritt
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 12:45 PMYeah, HP DV6-2120TX has one of those touch sensitive volume sliders. When you swipe it a few times to turn the volume up, you quite often turn the wifi off because of it’s location (immediately right of the volume slider). This is a headache when streaming por… video’s from youtube.
Kyle Mantesso
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 3:13 PMThats if it even works at all…
Erik
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 12:58 PMGawker Media circa Feb 2011: WORST ASSHOLE DESIGN MOVE EVER! I haven’t been back since, but when I caught word of this post I knew the time was right.
Nickolia
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 1:58 PMCome on, frames are totally the next big thing in modern web design
glennc
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 2:23 PMtry putting /classic after the dot com. 100% agree and until i found this out was about to boycott half of my favourite websites
Gino Rodrigo
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 1:42 PMI’m sorry, but has anyone noticed that the two USB ports on the side of the MacBook Pros aren’t spaced wide enough to support ‘fat’ USB devices?
Spaceorb
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 6:22 PMI find that so annoying- let alone the fact there are only 2 usb slots. I had a netbook once, and even it had 3 usb slots, and a proper monitor cable slot
glennc
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 2:19 PMthe new xbox s with it’s touch sensitive button above disc tray. accidently tapped it while changing discs a few times and it just closes on the disc sometimes half out… a feather could activate it. obviously a case of form over function and completely pointless.
Peter
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 3:34 PMArgh! The old phat ps3 and it’s stupid capacitive buttons, hit them a bajillion times when just moving the console for a cable or whatever. In fact, the douche who started this capacitive button thing can burn in hell. Give me a solid up’n’ down button any day of the week.
Darren Godbold
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 2:24 PMOn my HP DV6 notebook, there are 3 usb ports each on opposite corners on the sides. Since there’s no two ports next to each-other, I can’t plug in my external usb powered HDD without using an extension cable for the 2nd power usb plug.
Water Bear
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 3:37 PMThe Standard Acer keyboard.
The Sleep button is right next to escape, and for some reason it puts it into this unrecoverable sleep death that can’t be interupted.
Awesome when you really need to get something done.
Our office is full of them, when we get a new pc, if i remember, ill change the power settings.
Don’t remember that often TBH.
Damion
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 3:58 PMiPhone SMS and Email apps!
Email – Send button is in top right.
SMS – Cancel button is in top right!
I can’t count the number of times I’ve typed up an SMS then without thought hit ‘Cancel’ to send it.
Joe Euston
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 4:04 PMThe USB connection. Although “Universal” it was created rectangular. Have you ever struggled to figure out which way up a device has to be to be plugged in? I can’t believe this hasn’t been designed out.
Richard Djordjevic
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 7:40 PMUSB rates highly in my books because while it is called “Universal”, there are umpteen different sized plugs available that for the end user makes a USB cable anything but universal.
Sure, the protocol itself may be but as an end user its a PITA dealing with the three or four different USB cables on my desk.
Lucas Brown
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 11:21 PMI think he was refering to how quite literally everyone tries to plug usb in the wrong way every time. Although I love usb in principle it could’ve had a better shape, thats all.
Robert Tilt
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 4:29 PMMy HP Probook has a toggle wifi button tightly positioned above the backspace. Quite a few times I’ve been working on web-based documents only to be rudely interrupted with a loss of connection..
Adrian Mace
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 4:50 PMMy Lenovo S10e netbook switched the Fn and Ctrl keys around to cause utmost confusion when I was migrating from all other conventional laptops (Where CTRL is bottom left corner) to this one. fortunately I found a way to flash the BIOS with a different key map and physically switch the keys back.
veddermandan
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 5:01 PMPSP has its power button on the side. So when you are holding the PSP and want to use the top shoulder button i am continually turning off the machine in the middle of furious game play. It has to be the worst place to put the power button. Anywhere else would have been better. This was the main reason i stopped playing games on the PSP and just used it to read comics.
RichardH
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 5:22 PMThe Apple USB extender cable. They put this upward bump in it that makes it easy to guide in any apple USBs with grooves in them (read: keyboard or mouse) but gives a massive F**K YOU to all other (standard) USB plugs.
Those bastards add at least 2 minutes to plugging anything non-apple in and I actually destroyed one of these because the groove it has a weak bit of metal and pushing the standard square USB into it bends it upwards.
Matt
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 5:39 PMHP and their obsession with copying Apples design. Especially with there new touch pads which constantly get confused! I’d probably be fine with it if it actually worked.
Stew
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 5:57 PMiPhone 1′s recessed & 2.5mm headphone jack. Didn’t have one but it was a total dick move by a total dick company. Nokia & HTC & other companies tried it too I believe. I hate proprietary connectors/plugs/headphones.
My Logitech Wave keyboard’s insert/home/pgup/pgdn group of buttons. Instead of 3 across by 2 down, it’s 2 across by 3 down. Have to rewire my brain every time I go from home & work & visa versa. Infuriating. And the way they’ve moved the “right click/context action/menu” KB button to a Fn+ScrollLock button press. Aarrgghh! Don’t redesign the frigging key layout that we’re all already used to!
iPhone SMS app (like what Damion said) with “Send” right above O & P. The number of 1/2-finished msgs I’ve sent… Make it top right and the same as the damn email app!
Win2000 Server’s having to click Shut Down before you can log off (yes we support several legacy systems at work). Scares me every time I have to do it.
Spaceorb
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 6:20 PMMacbook pros- my school forced us all to buy one. There is no delete button, there is no ctrl button on the right side of the space bar, the backspace is called delete, and the fn button is to the left of the ctrl button. so confusing- keep pressing fn-alt-delete, or fn-c
Matty079
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 9:24 PMMy HP dv6 has the calculator button to the left of the ctrl key. No extra space given or anything…many times I will be playing a game and go to crouch or for whatever reason- press ctrl and I get kicked out of the program and left staring at a calculator.
Daniel Weaver-Koenigs
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 9:33 PMEvery keyboard that has ever come with a vertical return key or miniturised left shift.
If you designed this, I hate you, and so does everyone else using your piece of shit design in standard office environments.