Scrolling through these images, I just had to laugh. Cleverly uncomfortable design.
Deliberately inconvenient objects
Scrolling through these images, I just had to laugh. Cleverly uncomfortable design.
Some of these are almost as tragic as real-world appliance engineering has been for decades.
Interesting, but I was a little disappointed these were theoretical things. There are a lot of examples of things in real life made intentionally uncomfortable to use.
I think a gas pump might be one, for instance: it’s incredibly inconvenient in subzero winter with a strong wind to hold the handle to continue pumping gas, and if a gas pump can stop while the handle is still being held down it’s clearly an artificial requirement.
There are probably a lot of things designed to be awkward for safety.
This is a real thing, called Hostile Architecture, mostly used to drive homeless people away from clean storefronts. What kind of a jackass puts SPIKES on the ground to prevent people from sleeping out of the rain? Well, there’s a lot of them.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jun/13/anti-homeless-spikes-hostile-architecture