Bad designs make me furious

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Vitalis Jackson: May 14, 2009; Sun and water are healthy for you -- but not for your hair!; Fun Shoe

I concur with the OP; the design commonly used to plug wash basin drains has flaws. The best design is a rubber stopper with a chain.

I think that window screens are often poorly engineered. I refer to the ones that come with most modern double-hung windows; they are designed to compress to the left and pop out, right side first. However--for one reason or another--the compression amount is inadequate, and you have to use a screwdriver to pop out the right side, even after seating the left side in the channel. This seems poorly designed.

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Vitalis Jackson: May 14, 2009; Sun and water are healthy for you -- but not for your hair!; Fun Shoe

therattle posted:

There are a few everyday designs which absolutely infuriate me because they are poo poo. The classic example is the rod-operated bathroom sink plug mechanism:

It's a good idea in theory, but the loving things have a real propensity to malfunction. If a design cannot operate for any length of time without a good chance of it malfunctioning, then it's a bad design. How many hotels have you stayed at with these stupid plugs which don't work properly?

What I don't understand is why they are still so common when they break or stop working so easily and frequently. What other bad designs persist despite being rubbish? What gets your design goat?

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