“Hostile Design”: This Twitter Account Is Sharing 35 Sad And Infuriating Examples Of Design Against Humanity

You go, girl!

I understand homeless and homeless camps are undesirable and can be problematic, but a lack of compassion is not the answer.

No one CAN yah bloody arsehole

Uncomfortable people will not linger and talk with their friends. So, less tables are needed because they will be vacated quickly. Does anyone besides me notice that the short people, be they children or short adults, must prop their feet on the table framework in order to not slide off their uncomfortable seat?! What about people with knee or other leg problems? Did anyone consider them? Is this design a direct violation of the ADA? Shame on the designer, and shame on the people that allowed these table / bench combinations to be set up on their premise.

Then give the homeless somewhere they can go.

Challenge accepted 😎

Nobody can even sit here. Ugly overkill.

The city should take responsibility and do something about the problem.

Isn’t that a railing, isn’t it’s intended purpose to be to have people lean and or hold onto it??!?!

If they don’t want people sitting on it, then don’t even build it !

Somebody could really get hurt on that. Can you imagine an old lady losing her footing and hitting that?

These designs are also really awful for the elderly and disabled.

This makes it impossible to just plain walk.

I don’t disagree with this. My local public toilet is a haven for drug users and used as a beat.

They have for years in the UK

They've been doing that for years where I come from. Also, in some of our public toilets that doesnt cost money you have to send a text and then get a code to enter in return. Pretty clever, because they will know who was there if destroyed

Oof, they've been doing this in my country for YEARS

I guess maintaining it and keeping the toilets clean isn't exactly free, either.

Wtf. "Rolls eyes at the government her father worked for" land of the free my a*s.

We had pay toilets in the 70's when I was a child (here in the US). Cost a dime. We just crawled underneath.

This is very very common in Europe. A pain when you get off the train and don't have change in the local currency. But; overall, I support it - it pays to keep public toilets much cleaner!

Common in some places. Keeps them maintained. The problem is if they're coin operated, and you don't have change on you!

I have seen this in other countries before. They use the money to help pay staff to keep bathrooms clean.

This is unhelpful. In Australia (in Sydney) i have never seen this, but I have in other countries. If you are busting to go the loo and you don't happen to have coins on you, then you might as well just go in your pants. This is also not stopping drug users from using the bathrooms, all they have to do is have coins on them. It's really only unhelpful for homeless people, if they don't have the money to afford it, they end up just doing it in public, and then signs go up saying you can't do their business there. WHERE THE HECK ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO THEN?! going to the toilet is literally a basic necessity. This is just unhelpful.

Spend a penny, literally.

parkour time. gimme a boost, ya tall bastards

I get this but sometimes you gotta go, NOW, and having to deal with this is enough of a bottle neck to turn things into a disaster. Aside from that, this looks like a mall. It's not bad enough that newer malls only install 1 bathroom and often place it in obscure, out of the way, back hall locations, now they make you pay too. Here's a suggestion, stop building indoor malls, let stores go back to being independent out door shops and have their own bathroom that they can grant or deny use of.

Hope it takes a credit card.

Pay toilets are nothing new.

This is where the phrase “spend a penny” comes from.

I saw this at both Munich train station and Gare de l’Est in Paris. Ridiculous, a shame.

S**t on the sign

Whilst I understand that cleaning solutions cost,drug users lurk&the like..How does this look to visitors to the country.

This needs to happen. People are gross to public bathrooms. It’s a shared area. Have some care that someone has to use it after you.

But you all know that the homeless will just go somewhere else right? This is a waste of money

What do you mean "now cost money"? The ones round were I live and work have always charged for toilets. That is why everyone uses the McDonalds instead.

And you wonder why the platforms smell like p**s?

*lol* that would be normal in germany. I was actually rather surprised that the toilets in our relatively new (2016) mall are free to use!

What is this Poland?

At my home city they also changed free toilets into paid ones. I hate it and now the people are pissing nearly everywhere else.

We have had to resort to using a code for our bathrooms at work. I live in the Pacific Northwest.. more specifically.. an hour north of Seattle. That way we can monitor who we give the code to. It doesn't prevent theft from happening.. or drug use.. but it has cut down the issues considerably. But paying to use a restroom is something I've never seen so it seems harsh to me. What if a child has a bathroom emergency? Please don't downvote me for this. I do think it is a solution that works, but it falls into the category of paying for a cup of water for me.

bruh

People paid to enter public toilets in the U.S until the 70s. They were a lot cleaner then.

Decades ago, women used to need a dime to pee in many toilets, even in some department stores and restaurants (men could use urinals for free). This led to sending a small child under the door to unlock it, or else peeing yourself while you tried to find someone to give you a dime in exchange for the nickels and pennies in your purse. While most US toilets are still free by law, some states like Ohio have repealed those laws, making it possible we will once again see little kids squatting in the bushes because mom or dad doesn't have the right change. And yes, I get that electronic payments are possible, but not everyone has that option. Everyone needs a place to go though.

This is not uncommon outside of the US

Same as many in the UK. Lots have a one way gate to get out. They usually open when an inviable light beam on the inside of the toilets is broken . I just dangle a coat/bag over the gate and break the beam then enter for free.