“I Swear Nobody Tested That Product”: 30 Products That Were Made By Someone Who Never Uses Them
Legendary German industrial designer Dieter Rams, who has 'carved' many of Braun's consumer products over the years, developed the 10 principles of good design, sometimes also called the 10 commandments. These principles state that the end result has to be useful and understandable, innovative, aesthetic, unobtrusive, honest, long-lasting, thorough to the last detail, environmentally friendly, and involve as little design as possible.
However, as illustrated in one Reddit thread, many things that are being sold to us fall short in multiple of these categories. Started by platform user DongLaiCha, it asked everyone the question, "What products are clearly made by people or companies who never actually use them?" and people were quick to respond. From clothing items to food packages, here are some of the most popular answers from the discussion.
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Customer facing software. Developers should be required to hire grandmas under the explicit condition that if grandma can't look at a menu option and decide what to click without giving up and calling the help desk your functionality has failed.
Women's clothing in general. Sizing is always weird, and we never get enough pockets!
This is why, as a woman, I have always hated shopping for clothes as far back as I can remember. Not so much for tops but for jeans/pants. You have to try on every single pair even if it's the same brand.
Most online job applications. If you know, you know.
KAG25:
Upload resume, now fill out these 10 pages with the same stuff that was in the resume.
I swear that people who design some shampoo and conditioner bottles have never tried to use them while wet.
Bras with removable padding. I know exactly zero people who enjoy having to fish those pads out of the washer and or dryer and try to put them back in place. And someone even made a tool to re-insert them?? Just sew them in the first time, cowards!!
Also larger sizes with padding. Last thing I want is to make my boobs look even bigger!
Yes! Thank you! Who decided one day that every single bra has to be padded? (They call it "lined" but it's just a thin layer of padding.) I don't need any extra in that area.
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Underwires that carve their way out of the lining and give you a surprise poke in the armpit are annoying.
How about designing bra straps that don't slide down your arms? And maybe make more that open in the front. You could pull a muscle trying to hook it up in the back!
Sears used to carry an amazing bra that hooked in the front. It was so comfortable. After KMart and sears merged they stopped carrying it and I have been buying different bras for over 20 years. None are the same.
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Bra pads are there for your kitten to play with whenever someone from church comes by.
I almost spit my tea out from laughter when I read your comment! Thanks for the laugh and the fantastic mental picture! 😀
Load More Replies... What is this sudden thing that nearly all bras for sale have padding?? Why?? Our breasts don't suddenly need protection from regular impact. I hate it. Nowadays trying to buy a bra that is a) not padded b) not underwired and c) the same colour as my skin has become extremely trying.
That's the holy grail right there. Not padded. No underwire. Same color as skin. Comfortable. And still helps your silhouette look good. I've given up. 90% of the time my ladies are free. Society can just deal with it. The only reason I put on a bra is not to embarrass my poor son.
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OMG i hate this soo much!! almost every time i wash them they come out, and then the cloth covering comes off in the wash and then it’s just foam, which is even harder to put back in!
I promise this not meant in some incle/preteen boy kind of way, but I truly hate women have to wear bras. I understand large-breasted women it is probably out of necessity. But those that don't "have to", but are still required to, due to societal norms, it seems ridiculous. I promise if men had to wear them, the standards, the designs, the prices, etc would all be significantly different! I truly feel for you ladies! (absolutely no pun intended!)
Well, Dane, at least here nobody HAS to wear bras. I've several friends with small boobs and they don't always wear bras - but when they do, it's because despite small sizes, it feels more comfortable for them. And I'm not even talking about me and the big-breasted friend I have, who simply can't walk around without sweaty underboobs or the boobs flopping around when you walk a little faster. It's not *just* social norm. In some cases, it's simply comfort. Why not just treat bras like socks? You can wear them, you can wear big ones or small ones or none and nobody cares. It's just a piece of clothing!
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Every woman needs to get fitted by a professional bra fitted. Most larger department stores have them. And no, not VS. Nordstrom's, Von Mauer. A good shop and a professional fitter will make sure you're in a good fitting bra. Straps falling off your shoulders is because the bra is too big around. Also, you must care for your bras properly. Don't just throw into the washer and never in the dryer.
I hate the padding. I love that it's removable. First thing in the trash.
This is why I've given up bras. Granted, I have tiny tits which grants me the luxury of going braless, so I take advantage of that. I wear stretchy camisoles and bralettes, and - more often - nothing at all. I'm old enough to not care if anyone sees my braless boobs - I'm comfortable and that's all that matters to me.
They’re removable because they don’t want to sell padded versions for you and nonpadded versions for me.
I hate those little f*****s. If I must buy a bra with those, I immediately throw them out. Absolutely useless. I avoid buying bras with them if I can help it
I love small breasted women... sorry, not sorry!! No padding needed! (well unless you need the "stars" to um er.... ah... Love you even more there! LOL!)
Aside from the issue with pads, does anyone wish they made more cotton bras, and I don't mean sports bras? I had one decades ago that was soft with just enough stretch and simple lace edging on the cups. It was pretty, comfortable and especially great in the summer heat. Never saw that style again.
just gotta get in there like a diva cup- gotta kinda clamp it a bit and then let it expand once it's inside the pocket
I (husband) am the only one so far who can get the pads in without the bra looking like the home of a family of mice. Our son was asked to try, but said 'yuuuk' and hid under his bed.
That's totally not the point to see it in. Why doesn't OP just buy bras with non- removable pads? There are options but she chose to go the difficult route and then complaint about the exact function of it. Smh
I think they started doing that because some people don't like the extra padding and some do. And bras with padding where only being bought by about half the potential customers
It always drives me crazy not being able to find my size in stores easily, and it’s even worse when the rack labeled with my size is full of the wrong size and none of the right ones. Also, bras with wires that twist and/or quickly start poking out on the sides. There’s got to be a way for that to stay in or a way to make better wireless bras.
These are also always too small and need to be readjusted several times while wearing
So many baby products!
Baby gates - I don't want a baby gate that requires two hands to open, because one arm is busy *holding the baby*. Ideally there would be one with a foot operated lock/unlock mechanism, so I can hold the baby and (luxury!) up to one other thing as well. Baby wipes that stick together when you pull them out of the container, so you end up with a long damp string of wipes that you can't pull apart because the other hand is busy holding the squirming baby legs up off of the pile of diaper contents.
Strollers that require two hands to collapse, and assume that all parents possess the grip strength of a silverback gorilla. I want to be able to open and close that thing with one hand, people. One hand!
If you've found hacks to get around these issues that's great - my point is they shouldn't be issues in the first place. For the amount of money you pay for baby products, they should be designed in such a way that a parent *holding a baby* can actually use them.
How the heck does one keep a baby from unlocking a foot-operated baby gate?
Flour bags. Whose f*****g b******t idea was it to put the most powdery, messy substance in a PAPER BAG that I can never open without tearing a mile down the side? And *never* seals in a way that isn’t obnoxious and stupid.
Period products.
veggie_saurus_rex:
I've always thought this, glad there has been a call out! Blood and mucus are not easily absorbed like "mysterious blue liquid".
elfowlcat:
Stupid sticky wings that leave all the sticky on the outside of the underwear!
In education, the administration (especially the board of education) are too far from the work that actually goes on in the classroom. I've taught for a long time and have never seen a Board of Education member in a classroom. Principals think they know what's going on because they do observations, but the part they don't understand is how the layers of "c**p" they add to the workload affects the teachers...or how that eventually affects the students. Administrators add layers of c**p because they think that is their job. Instead, they should view their job as removing c**p so that teachers have the time and freedom to have the most purely academic and meaningful interaction with the students.
Ours has a couple MAGA members. Spend most of their time hunting for "woke" curriculum and using public whispers to crucify teachers, FOIAing personnel files, etc.. One interaction I had with one of them accused my co-worker of stealing a bag of soda cans (Michigan) from his place of business. When he first asked "who owns that truck?", he ASSumed it was a coworker who has lobe gauges. What a clown...
Child proof caps on arthritis medication. W.T.F.
If you take the child proof cap (that requires you to push down) off and smack the edge of it with a hammer you can separate the inner normal screw cap from its child proof outer layer. Then use as normal.
Economy airplane seats. I bet things would change if airline CEO’s had to spend 100 hours sitting in the economy seats they approved.
But they don't. And their aim would still be to make as much money per flight as possible.
Those toilet paper holder in public toilets that cut off at two sheets.
Not a product, but most laws meant to support low income households are designed by people who have no concept of poverty. The hoops you have to jump through are meant to be prohibitive, and the income thresholds for who gets help are arbitrary. Even in France and Germany, where I am and where there are lots of social benefits.
MY experience in the usa - many of the people who abuse the system - are members of the political party that accuses the other, for having welfare queens.
I can only assume cereal makers eat an entire box in one sitting, otherwise, they’d be on the phone to the ziplock people midway through their first bowl.
verydepressedwalnut:
While we’re at it, pet food bags. Why the fuck are those not resealable too? I promise my cats aren’t eating 16lbs in a day.
Our dog food bags have a zipper to close them. Okay they're 20kg bags so it's probably easier.
Paper straws.
I bought a package of reuseable straws in a kitchen-stuff store five years ago. Still using the first one - they're medical-looking rubber and they wash-and-dry very well.
Maybe a bit off topic, but in a meeting with a former colleague of mine, the person in charge of the metro for a nearby city admitted that he had never used the metro. Not that he didn’t use the metro, but that he had never used it in his life, even once. I suspect that this kind of thing isn’t uncommon for government services.
Bras.
Critical-Adeptness-1:
“Where is the most sensitive part of a woman’s breast?” “I’d say the nipple, sir.” “Great, thanks, I agree. So yeah let’s put the thickest, mostly bothersome stitch in the entire cup straight across where that nipple’s gonna be, ‘k? Cool, thanks team, get to work”
Strollers. I swear they only tested them empty or with a tiny doll inside a store while having nothing else to do.
Now, try to use it on a tilted pavement with a huge baby bag, 2 toys, an almost 2 years old, 2 big shopping bags, a car trunk to open with someone honking at you for your parking spot after having 2hours of sleep per night since months. And it's raining.
Condiment packets.
*Tear along this line*
The line is on the wrong spot!
The plastic line is too stretchy and didn't even tear!
The notch isn't even cut! My fingers are so greasy that I can't even grip it!
The jerk face who designed blister pack packaging.
Like why are the scissors in a package that requires tin snips to open and once opened will cut me like a knife?
I worked >10 years in printing of these evil things. You could tow a car with the blisters on some of these. We were supposed to collapse the blister and wrench it around to make sure that the package shredded before the blister came off, that was for the bulbs. You don't even want to know about the other stuff we made packaging for and what we had to put it through before we ran it. It's not your imagination.
New apartments designed to sell rather than be lived in.
I drove through an old (1980s) subdivision the other day and had a profound realization that we'll never have anything like that kind of living space again. Each house was different, the properties were big, high quality building materials. It just looked more like a neighborhood than a housing development. The new subdivisions like I live in might as well be cardboard sardines in a can. No personality, no space, just as expensive. All for the dollar of a small group of rich sociopaths. It's pathetic.
My over-ear headphones that for some unexplainable reason have touch, as in you have to swipe at the side of the earpiece to change volume, song etc. But it just doesn't work. 50% of the time when you want to turn up the volume you switch song. Especially when you are walking. Even worse, the headphones are unusable with a hood on because the touch reacts to the inside of my hood.
It's just horrible, and it serves no purpose! I swear nobody actually tested that product. STOP PUTTING TOUCH CONTROLS ON THINGS THAT DON'T NEED THEM!
Celebrity makeup and perfumes.
I doubt any of the celebrities have even tried them, let alone used them on a regular basis. Kylie makeup is the best example of this. Cheap makeup with an expensive price tag.
I have a hard time believing that celebrities use the boxed hair coloring you can get at any drug store. If I had the money, I would not be doing it myself and I would have a professional colorist. As a matter of fact, I don't believe it at all.
Plus sized clothing.
I don't understand how the boobage factor can be so small and the tent like dress part be sooooo tent-like.
Or that plus sized people don't get to have the same type of clothing pattern as a smaller piece of clothing.
I enjoy wearing really large T-shirts, but apparently the size is (most often) in width only, not length.
Paper towel dispensers (in public restrooms) that are operated by pulling on the paper towel itself. If you don't think to prep one before washing your hands, good luck pulling a whole sheet without it dissolving into tiny pieces of useless wet paper.
Tip - grab one before washing hands to turn off faucet, and use the 2nd one to open door.
The little foil seal (hiding under the plastic cap) that insists it's "for your protection" and requires needle nose pliers to remove. Bruh, I just want to add creamer to my coffee. And now my fingers hurt. 😫
Edit to include: and let's not forget the body jolting frustration that consumes you when you FIRST attempt to use/squeeze/pour said product only to discover your little foil friend has "safety first!" in mind.
Those pull tabs on the inside of the necks of olive oil bottles or sesame oil. So small, a finger barely fits in it, let alone grasp and pull it.
And the tab is too hard to grip and way too flimsy for the strength of the adhesive for the part that’s attached to the bottle. Plus, there’s usually plastic under the foil or cardboard, which itself doesn’t all pull off, so you’re left with a plastic seal that only has a tiny slit in it, after pulling everything else off—-and it isn’t easy to pull off either!
Those who make the "pull this flip to open" on plastic packaging of cold cuts.
jonnyoxl:
I don't even bother with bacon packs anymore.easier to just pierce the plastic with a knife.
Love that none of the english speaking people have noticed that is is horsemeat
Hospital beds. From the standpoint of the person who has to push it around and mess with rails that get caught in the mattress and plug it in with a long dirty cord that gets mixed up with another random cord that no one knows its purpose. No retractable cords so they constantly drag on the ground and try to trip you when pushing the bed. Brakes that are in the most awkward position that you have to invert your knee to reach with your foot. And worst, the screeching, ear-piercing alarm that they emit to “warn you” that the bed is not locked. Hospital beds are obnoxious.
Voice-driven phone prompt systems.
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The new milk bottle top that are slightly frosted in appearance, I know some who look for the bottle top when it is on, try and pour milk with it on or spend time looking for it on a work top. Not ideal for the visually impaired. They used to be either blue or green but now they say it if for recycling but the previous caps could be too or were they lying by showing the recycle logo on them.
Microsoft Equation. Whoever invented that went to only one mathematics class in their whole life - and dropped out. I'm very tempted to say the same about major components of Microsoft Excel.
Care to elaborate? I love Excel. Way better than Google sheets.
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Load More Replies... The new milk bottle top that are slightly frosted in appearance, I know some who look for the bottle top when it is on, try and pour milk with it on or spend time looking for it on a work top. Not ideal for the visually impaired. They used to be either blue or green but now they say it if for recycling but the previous caps could be too or were they lying by showing the recycle logo on them.
Microsoft Equation. Whoever invented that went to only one mathematics class in their whole life - and dropped out. I'm very tempted to say the same about major components of Microsoft Excel.
Care to elaborate? I love Excel. Way better than Google sheets.
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