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I used to work for a mortgage broker, and there was a "Best Mortgage Broker of 200x Award" that basically rotated each year around the participating companies.
I strongly suspect that many awards in the legal industry work in this way also.
I am always amazed at how poorly designed bathroom sink faucets are. The spout where the water comes out is always so close to the far edge instead of to the middle of the sink. Placing the spout so the water exits in the middle of the sink would be so much nicer. You wouldn't have to lean over, your hands wouldn't be hitting the back of the sink, and you'd have so much more room to wash your hands.
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Consider that this might block uses where another object (or a baby or body part) goes in the sink.
Sinks are such a great example of what seems like a device with deceptively simple requirements for its design – but turns out to have so much complexity.
I assume, like having lots of mirrored or glass furniture/surfaces, they're the kind of thing you get when all the cleaning (and much of the childcare) is done by "the help", who will just have to deal with whatever unhelpful-to-them design decisions you've made. And when you're in a house that has a dozen or more total sinks, so you've also got a "mud sink" somewhere that's better for utility-type things—and maybe one for each floor, if it's the kind of house that has a utility/laundry room on every floor. Not so viable in normal houses where every sink needs to be a multi-tasker.
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I used to work for a mortgage broker, and there was a "Best Mortgage Broker of 200x Award" that basically rotated each year around the participating companies.
I strongly suspect that many awards in the legal industry work in this way also.
Warning: this book leaves some permanent imprints in your mind that will forever cause you to be annoyed at badly designed doors and other things.
Absolutely not. Atleast not with everything all the time. I love how the front camera on my phone is not concentric to the notch. How my table has uneven legs (I place a wooden piece to adjust). How the edge of my door is not aligned with the frame. How some of my t-shirts have slightly uneven sleeves. For me, imperfections make them personal. I am repelled by people ('designers' ;)) looking at everything to find fau…
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Back in the day, when VCRs were a thing, everybody used to joke about how no one new how to program theirs. Heck, half of them had the blinking clock forever cause people couldn’t figure out how to reset it. After reading this book, I realized that maybe if one person can’t program their VCR, you could have argued that it’s their fault. But certainly if so many people have problems with it, it’s clearly an issue with…
It can also indicate a process that is (currently) beyond the capabilities of the interface available (thinking the difficulty of programming a VCR when you have four buttons and one LED that can display 88:88 and that's it vs a full touchscreen interface on a phone). Arguably the VCRs did as well as they could - BUT they made the critical mistake of not realizing that programming and setting the clock would be diffi…
If you weren't going to use that feature, yeah, it was pointless and could have just stayed blank rather than blinking 12:00 or whatever.
Warning: this book leaves some permanent imprints in your mind that will forever cause you to be annoyed at badly designed doors and other things.
It's a constant frustration when I go into someone's kitchen that they obviously spent thousands on, and I see a hob with up/down buttons, or a stylish but absurdly unusable sink faucet.
At least once a week I get surprised by the hot water when washing my hands :)
I am always amazed at how poorly designed bathroom sink faucets are. The spout where the water comes out is always so close to the far edge instead of to the middle of the sink. Placing the spout so the water exits in the middle of the sink would be so much nicer. You wouldn't have to lean over, your hands wouldn't be hitting the back of the sink, and you'd have so much more room to wash your hands.
> The spout where the water comes out is always so close to the far edge instead of to the middle of the sink.
> Placing the spout so the water exits in the middle of the sink would be so much nicer. You wouldn't have to lean over, your hands wouldn't be hitting the back of the sink, and you'd have so much more room to wash your hands.
That would suck. If the faucet was in the middle, it would be where I put my face when I try to wash it in the sink.
I am always amazed at how poorly designed bathroom sink faucets are. The spout where the water comes out is always so close to the far edge instead of to the middle of the sink. Placing the spout so the water exits in the middle of the sink would be so much nicer. You wouldn't have to lean over, your hands wouldn't be hitting the back of the sink, and you'd have so much more room to wash your hands.
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It's a constant frustration when I go into someone's kitchen that they obviously spent thousands on, and I see a hob with up/down buttons, or a stylish but absurdly unusable sink faucet.
I have a house here in London where in the kitchen the cold tap is on the left side and hot on the right side while in the bath rooms it is hot water on the right side and hot on the left side of the mixer tap. Seriously I have no idea why the developer thought this was a good idea. At least once a week I get surprised by the hot water when washing my hands :)