for the record, I am a furniture designer class 1985 Primrose Center and I made a table without a top to demonstrate this point:
<a href="https://www.jeisch.com/img/furniture/tab_no_top_1988.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://www.jeisch.com/img/furniture/tab_no_top_1988.jpg</a>
and another one which is a table which is a holder for a painting:
<a href="https://www.jeisch.com/img/furniture/tab_pointy_1987.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://www.jeisch.com/img/furniture/tab_pointy_1987.jpg</a>
the painting which is being held in the pointy table is this:
<a href="https://www.jeisch.com/img/paintings/oil_martyr_1988.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://www.jeisch.com/img/paintings/oil_martyr_1988.jpg</a>
but it slides in and out basically it is a horizontal holder a painting.
I’ve always enjoyed the “useless teapot” that Don Norman has on the cover of DOET: <a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61KtiLw7BtL._AC_UL600_SR600,600_.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61KtiLw7BtL...</a>
If the cap is screwed on and sealed, you should pour it from the side like a bottle of oil: <a href="https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/attachments/technical-stuff/1571948d1477742174-correct-way-pour-engine-oil-aha-moment-inside-img_4408.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/attachments/technical-stuff/1...</a>
I believe it is actually called: The masochist’s teapot.<p>I recommend this book to anyone remotely interested in design. Even today it is fantastic.
<i>IC: With AI getting bigger and more controversial and so on, have you used AI to create any of these designs?</i><p>That is an interesting point to bring up, because this type of "almost but not quite right" is exactly what AI seems to naturally create.
"what if objects were actually designed for a bad user experience, instead of a good one? she recalled in a 2018 TED talk. That was my ‘eureka’ moment."<p>Or, she stumbled upon some article or the very Wikipedia page about it:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chind%C5%8Dgu" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chind%C5%8Dgu</a>
This gets quite close to chindogu, the Japanese art of designing objects that kind of serve a very niche purpose, but then without being useful.
<a href="https://www.tofugu.com/japan/chindogu-japanese-inventions/" rel="nofollow">https://www.tofugu.com/japan/chindogu-japanese-inventions/</a>
this really reminds me of the "worst volume control" from reddit <a href="https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world-60713dc86950" rel="nofollow">https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world...</a>
I love that these are all fairly beautiful, stuff you'd really love to have if it wasn't fundamentally unusable.
I feel like I've seen some of these designs a VERY long time ago? Is this something old that the person was just interviewed on recently?
Yes! (The article says the project started a while back but the writer/interviewer only just discovered it)
It does do the rounds on the various social medias on the regular. The website looks interesting enough at least.
This is a link to the interview. here is a link to the products website: <a href="https://www.theuncomfortable.com/#" rel="nofollow">https://www.theuncomfortable.com/#</a>
This is such a great reminder that "good design" is mostly invisible until it breaks
It's missing the Magic Mouse.
as a designer and innovator, i appriciete this. this gives me ideas really out of box, just to see these. amazing!<p>i also do this for ui and app logic: go to some Microslop service, they are all like these...sad but true
Now I’m wondering how you could create ‘uncomfortable’ versions of simple command line tools (ls, cat, more etc.) or perhaps shells.<p>Emacs and/or vi, depending on your inclination, have text editors covered already, of course ;-)
Well, bash offers vi and Emacs as editing modes. We're already covered on that front. Many of the parameters for ls are cryptic, making it awkward to use for anything other than routine tasks without referencing the man page. more is so limited that many people choose to use a program used to concatenation files (cat) as a file viewer. Those who don't want to reach for their mouse to use their terminal's scrollbar buffer will use less, since it does more than more. Don't bother parsing that last sentence with bison, unless you have a yacc to shave.
This is a fun idea
Feed all command output through AI to summarize the results instead of actually giving the results.<p>Results from ls would be a few sentences explaining the types of files in the directory. Add a -l on there and it will give you a general overview of the permissions and size of the files. Ex. “These are rather large files that are primarily, but not exclusively, limited to root.”<p>Results from cat would give a summary of the file. You’d get the same results, with some degree of randomness from more and less as well.<p>Using any command with sudo would provide the same type of results, but in all caps.<p>Trying to pipe commands together would be a slop multiplier.
jus used new ubuntu
instead of ifconfig (weird name)
it had ip
couldnt figure from the help how to get actually show the ip<p>so linux is already there
Yeah, Linux has been trending to incomprehensible commands.<p>In terms of usability, moving to FreeBSD from Linux is quite a positive experience. Pity that hardware and software support is limited on the BSDs.
Use an agent for all CLI work.
What's wrong about the glasses? I've been staring at them and trying to figure out why they're unworkable, as opposed to just a quirky pair of specs.
The sharp angle of the bridge would dig into your nose.
Pointy bit on the bridge of the nose.
the sharp point on the bridge is going to hurt your snout.
you don't have glasses ever, i guess?
The glasses would be great for pool playing, as they would sit higher on your line of sight :)
The funny thing is that the toothbrush would actually come in handy for cleaning stuff other than teeth.<p>For example, the inner water tank of a robotic vacuum.
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given the title, so may software developers must be living in bliss! /s
All seems very contrived. Not what I would call creative