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Title: Lousy Designs (IBM: Invented by Mistake)
Post by: Constance on January 14, 2012, 03:33:38 PM
Post by: Constance on January 14, 2012, 03:33:38 PM
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.
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.
Title: Re: Lousy Designs (IBM: Invented by Mistake)
Post by: BlonT on January 16, 2012, 01:33:12 AM
Post by: BlonT on January 16, 2012, 01:33:12 AM
Same as software or computers ,the one who orders them have never worked with them >:-)
Title: Re: Lousy Designs (IBM: Invented by Mistake)
Post by: tekla on January 16, 2012, 02:37:28 AM
Post by: tekla on January 16, 2012, 02:37:28 AM
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 forPowerPoint 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.
But my favorite was the first gen of the big plasma TVs. Conventions loved 'em for sales pitches in the corporate booth and for