Trying to place your cursor on iPhone texts. Like if I mess up a spelling two sentences ago, it is almost impossible to get the cursor to go the right place to make the correction. It highlights the entire word, or goes one or two letters over or entire words over from when I’m trying to correct. You can “drag and drop” the cursor too but that always seems to work worse for me
The ‘push here’ perforated part of a cardboard box (like a box of kosher salt or corn starch) that NEVER works and instead just dents the box and makes it even harder to open.
Cereal and chip bags that don’t reseal after they are opened. Use it or lose it, either way you have to buy more sooner than you would if companies sold resealable packages.
Food packages that are resealable but the glue they use is to adhere the seal zip to the bag is weaker than the seal. So when you go to re-open the seal, the seal zip pulls away from the bag and there goes the resealable feature.
Yes! Especially those cherry tomatoes with a flimsy cellophane cover and the bar code on the bottom. Turn it over to scan at checkout, hear the cover give way and then little tomatoes rolling everywhere. Perhaps a bit wasteful, but now I grab plastic bags in the meat dept and put things like this and leaky packaging in it. (Yeah, I am calling you out Dole pineapple chunks!)
Doona/duvet covers with the buttons at the bottom end, meaning you have to perform magic/crawl inside to get the doona in properly. It’s 2025 and we can’t at least have the opening on the long side? Or a zip/buttons around two sides? Something!
Why the hell does my stove / oven / microwave not have a battery in it that can withstand a .008 second power outage so I don’t have to reset the time?
Sig Sauer P320. Widely known to spontaneously discharge and they just deny it every time. They say it’s user error, and I agree: the error was the user deciding to be anywhere near a P320.
The little blue cheese dressing dipping cups for wings should be OBLONG NOT CIRCULAR. That way it actually allows you to dip a wing on its side correctly.
On Mac OS, the Finder (file browser) has no default sort or view functionality. Everything is folder by folder and there is no easy/non-hacky way to say “just open all folders in list view.” There are many articles about hacks to make this work or scripts you can write, but it is just stupid complicated.
The clear plastic film on things like potato salad with a tiniest little tab you are supposed to grab to pull it off. And the indestructible battery packaging.
Just a general observation: it feels like a whole bunch of products I use don’t work well or clearly were never used by the people designing them. It’s so common that my wife just rolls her eyes when I start a rant about it.
I can’t decide whether it’s because it’s a) cheaper to produce them this way so the companies don’t give a shit or b) the designers can’t be bothered to give a shit.
Audible with basically all of their app “features”. They keep adding new things that nobody wants, while the same update breaks other functions that were previously working fine.
can openers. why do they always break, rust, or somehow stab me within a month of gentle use. we’ve literally put people on the moon but i can’t open a can of beans without a minor crisis.
Allow me to introduce the supposed world’s best design company. Pioneered a very innovative way of charging a mouse where you can’t use it while charging. I’m talking about the Apple “magic” mouse, and of course this mouse is useless compared to something like a mx master 3
Expiration dates on food packaging. It seems like it’s always a scavenger hunt to find them. It should be standard that they are always on the “front” main label.
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Heinz ketchup packaging in glass bottles. The solution was plastic bottles.
Nose Frida always breaks, it stops charging
Trying to place your cursor on iPhone texts. Like if I mess up a spelling two sentences ago, it is almost impossible to get the cursor to go the right place to make the correction. It highlights the entire word, or goes one or two letters over or entire words over from when I’m trying to correct. You can “drag and drop” the cursor too but that always seems to work worse for me
Shampoo bottles that flip open so easily in luggage but NEVER when you’re in the shower with slippery hands.
Slinky’s always getting tangled…
Most food packaging. You always end up tearing the film wrong.
TV remotes with 40 tiny buttons and no backlight. It’s 2025, not 1999
The ‘push here’ perforated part of a cardboard box (like a box of kosher salt or corn starch) that NEVER works and instead just dents the box and makes it even harder to open.
Electoral College voting system for US president
The cardboard boxes that have the perforated press here sides to “easily” pour whatever it holds out.
Blundstone work boots. The material cannot withstand any sort of punishment or heavy use, but they are still marketed as work boots
They still haven’t figured out a better piston engine.
Cereal and chip bags that don’t reseal after they are opened. Use it or lose it, either way you have to buy more sooner than you would if companies sold resealable packages.
iPhones overheating!
Anything I had to adjust as a left handed person to use because the standard is right handed only.
Plastic clamshell packaging the amount of times I’ve got cut
Reddit
Toothpaste. Can’t put it back in the tube.
Tabs on food packaging.
I think someone out there thinks they did a great job inventing something that enables people to give a slight pull and hey presto – bacon!
Sadly no. That person is living a lie.
i´ll say it!!!!!!
SANDWICHMAKER!! F$%&/( them all.
the cheese will melt and be everywhere !!
Food packages that are resealable but the glue they use is to adhere the seal zip to the bag is weaker than the seal. So when you go to re-open the seal, the seal zip pulls away from the bag and there goes the resealable feature.
Student loans/debt or the entire higher education system and all the expenses that come with it (in non subsidised countries) /s
Yes! Especially those cherry tomatoes with a flimsy cellophane cover and the bar code on the bottom. Turn it over to scan at checkout, hear the cover give way and then little tomatoes rolling everywhere. Perhaps a bit wasteful, but now I grab plastic bags in the meat dept and put things like this and leaky packaging in it. (Yeah, I am calling you out Dole pineapple chunks!)
The Reddit ‘search’ function and the app in general.
any tube-based product where you can’t squirt out the last of the non-newtonian goop (looking at you, ketchup and toothpaste)
Doona/duvet covers with the buttons at the bottom end, meaning you have to perform magic/crawl inside to get the doona in properly. It’s 2025 and we can’t at least have the opening on the long side? Or a zip/buttons around two sides? Something!
Why the hell does my stove / oven / microwave not have a battery in it that can withstand a .008 second power outage so I don’t have to reset the time?
The bag in the box of cereals should be ziploc
Sig Sauer P320. Widely known to spontaneously discharge and they just deny it every time. They say it’s user error, and I agree: the error was the user deciding to be anywhere near a P320.
Games with subscription services
iPhone camera bump
The little blue cheese dressing dipping cups for wings should be OBLONG NOT CIRCULAR. That way it actually allows you to dip a wing on its side correctly.
On Mac OS, the Finder (file browser) has no default sort or view functionality. Everything is folder by folder and there is no easy/non-hacky way to say “just open all folders in list view.” There are many articles about hacks to make this work or scripts you can write, but it is just stupid complicated.
Those fucking water shutoff valves under the sink
AI continues asking asinine questions on R/AskReddit in order to harvest the answers.
The pull tabs on frozen pizza boxes never work. I try but end up ripping it open by the flaps of the box
The clear plastic film on things like potato salad with a tiniest little tab you are supposed to grab to pull it off. And the indestructible battery packaging.
No back button on iphone
Just a general observation: it feels like a whole bunch of products I use don’t work well or clearly were never used by the people designing them. It’s so common that my wife just rolls her eyes when I start a rant about it.
I can’t decide whether it’s because it’s a) cheaper to produce them this way so the companies don’t give a shit or b) the designers can’t be bothered to give a shit.
Probably both.
Scotch Finger biscuits.
They really look like they should break down the middle every time, don’t they?
Audible with basically all of their app “features”. They keep adding new things that nobody wants, while the same update breaks other functions that were previously working fine.
Soda bottles, especially in colder weather and environments, feel welded on. Make these things easy to open!
can openers. why do they always break, rust, or somehow stab me within a month of gentle use. we’ve literally put people on the moon but i can’t open a can of beans without a minor crisis.
Allow me to introduce the supposed world’s best design company. Pioneered a very innovative way of charging a mouse where you can’t use it while charging. I’m talking about the Apple “magic” mouse, and of course this mouse is useless compared to something like a mx master 3
Expiration dates on food packaging. It seems like it’s always a scavenger hunt to find them. It should be standard that they are always on the “front” main label.