The pleasures of poor product design

keithnz

given the title, so may software developers must be living in bliss! /s

bcherry

this really reminds me of the "worst volume control" from reddit https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world...

jrmg

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 ;-)

ChrisMarshallNY

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...

Gigachad

I love that these are all fairly beautiful, stuff you'd really love to have if it wasn't fundamentally unusable.

eszed

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.

userbinator

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.

anonymous344

as a designer and innovator, i appriciete this. this gives me ideas really out of box, just to see these. amazing! i also do this for ui and app logic: go to some Microslop service, they are all like these...sad but true

whiteboardr

It's missing the Magic Mouse.