Lousy Designs (IBM: Invented by Mistake)

[Constance]

So, let's complain about things that were obviously designed by people who never intended to use them.

Why are so many bike racks designed in such a way as to make it difficult to actually secure one's bike? I swear the designers of these things had never tried to lock a bicycle to anything.

[BlonT]

Same as software or computers ,the one who orders them have never worked with them 

[tekla]

The first gen of most of the equipment I work with all seems to be designed in a picture-perfect lab where 'it worked fine'.  But put it on the road, and set it up and tear it down every day and it craps out within a week. 

But my favorite was the first gen of the big plasma TVs.  Conventions loved 'em for sales pitches in the corporate booth and for PowerPoint slide-shows in the meetings and break-out rooms.  But they were so obviously intended to be mounted once and only once - and in a wall, not on a stand.  They must have broken a big pile of them because the second gen was easy to use.