Looks Over Functionality

[@heartpalpytations]

My high school had motion detector lights in the bathrooms that turned off after a period of time sensing no movement. The problem was, it couldn’t see inside the stalls. So sometimes a poor soul that was just taking a while on the toilet (and the only person in the room) would have the lights shut off on them. That poor soul was me on several occasions.

[@pineappleroad]

The school i went to between 2011 and 2013 had motion sensor lights in every room, however, in the classrooms, the motion sensor was only there to turn the lights OFF automatically, you had to press one of the switches to get the lights to come on (there was a switch by the door, and a plate with 3 switches by the teachers desk, the lights were divided into 3 sections, the switch by the door turned them all on or off, the middle switch on the plate by the teachers desk also turned on or off all of the lights, and the end switches on that plate turned on or off the lights at one end of the room or the other And i lost track of the number of times the lights shut off (by themselves) while i was in a room

[@AA-hg5fk]

Exactly the same thing at my workplace. I've got used to taking a dump in the dark now.

[@alexander1112000]

My mom got these pots and pans years ago. They were made by some big designer. The pots/pans were made of metal. The handles were made of the same metal. They were connected directly to the pot/pan. They looked pretty, but if you cooked with them you better break out the oven mitts because you WILL burn yourself on the handle.

[@pigeonfeathers2217]

I had some super cute cooking utensils that were silicone. Purchased them thinking it would be good for my pans b/c it won’t chip. The handles are wood and the silicone sort glued on. This means that anytime I’ve put them in the dishwasher, as one normally does with their cooking stuff, the wood gets like swollen and cracks. Sometimes the silicone part falls off too.

[@GreenAppelPie]

My daughter has many boys’ shorts and pants because they work on her, are cheaper, and have pockets. She’s even added pockets to the few dresses she owns

[@liannebenn2097]

I always steal my son's shorts.

[@KaregoAt]

Yeah I wear exclusively men's jeans and shorts nowadays. Literally no difference other than consistent sizing and good pockets.

[@liamtolan47]

I’m probably the only male in this conversation, so I say to this… 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 yuckey

[@KaregoAt]

@@liamtolan47 lmaoooo it's all just fabric my guy, fragile much?

[@KMTepi]

A few weeks ago i bought this boy's sweater and pants and it is one of the most comfiest outfits i own

[@shawn576]

Oh shit, that first one! A data harvesting pregnancy test is next level dystopian.

[@HarshlyCynical]

Finishes test, awaiting results Phone buzzes *pampers wants to know your location*

[@gabrielbruce1977]

Hits real different with current events too... harvested data showing a positive test can be used as evidence in court if the baby-haver decides to terminate.

[@shawn576]

@@gabrielbruce1977 nah the natural miscarriage rate is about 20%. It would be a tedious waste of time to go after people having abortions

[@Badartist888]

@@shawn576 You are acting like no one has ever been prosecuted for a miscarriage under vaguely worded anti-abortion laws.

[@ElizabethTheJedi]

Not sure if this entirely applies to “form over function,” but I’ll give it a shot. This actually happened the other night, the last night of my family’s vacation in Harbor Island, South Carolina. Some context first: the condo we stayed in was more on the run-down side, but it wasn’t too terrible. It had two floors, which were probably two separate condos at some point, since the stairs connecting the two stories were so terribly built. So, when I went downstairs the other night to take a medicine I had forgotten to take just before I was about to go to sleep, I slipped (like how slipping is depicted in wet floor signs) and fell down the 2 or 3 bottom stairs I had yet to walk down and badly sprained BOTH of my feet. So, needless to say, the 14-hour drive home yesterday was VERY rough on me. My feet hurt so much that I had to stand on my tiptoes to walk without it being so excruciating.

[@pineappleroad]

The school one made me think of the school i went to between 2011 and 2013 The old building had a strange layout, there were 2 staircases, on the upper floors there were 5 classrooms per floor, but each classroom could only (normally) be accessed from one of the two staircases, if you were in a classroom on one side, and needed to go to a classroom on the other side, you had to walk all the way down to the ground floor, walk along the corridor on the ground floor, and walk up the other staircase Around summer 2012 the school moved into a new building, which thankfully didn’t have the stupid layout where you had to walk up and down stairs to get between different classrooms on the same floor, but there was a new weird design choice, the toilets There were no urinals at all, both the male and female toilets just had cubicles, and there was no door separating the area where the sinks were from the corridor, there was however, a door separating the area where the cubicles were from where the sinks were, oh, and the cubicles were a pain, the walls could shift around easily, so you could find yourself with a door that cannot be locked without shifting the walls, and it was real fun if someone shifted the walls while you were in there, as the door could swing open even when “locked”, or even a door that cannot be opened without shifting the walls

[@Ivy99999]

All I can think of when I hear "Car indicator lights are turning cute" is them going "Turning left OwO" 🤣

[@computernerdinside]

When it comes to the Apple mouse, I agree, the charger location is stupid. But there is an easy solution to that: plug it in when you’re not using it, if not every time, then like once or twice a week when you’re not using it. Then it will be charged for when you do need to use it. It’s not that difficult, even though the location is kind of stupid. Maybe it’s slightly different than your phone, but I see way too many people out there that will use batteries until they’re dead, and only then, charge them. I should also state that the more deep cycles you load on the battery, the quicker the life of the battery runs out.

[@SilveryBlue1010]

That touchscreen on cars. 💀

[@slam.p]

Bro those are so useful

[@theflaminglitten-fo6jd]

@@slam.p sure but you're supposed to drive with 2 hands

[@DerEinsameSoldat]

@@theflaminglitten-fo6jd I hold the wheel steady with my left knee 😅😂🤣

[@shawn576]

I love things that require me to look away from the road while I'm tailgating someone at 60mph. Such safety.

[@sabersz]

@@slam.p nope. Try going through three different menus just to change your climate settings. Fucking forget it, just give me a rotating dial! I'm glad my '08 Fiesta has the most basic of screens and everything is still physical.

[@goldra8377]

The power glove

[@Mario-SunshineGalaxy64]

For the Apple mouse I remember seeing a video someone made to make the mouse more user friendly using attaching a 3D printed contraption so it can charge while it’s being used.

[@pineappleroad]

I do remember coming across a video like that, except it turned out that the mouse refuses to work when connected to the charger

[@jonnypena7651]

No only that but its form is very difficult to the hand.

[@medafan53]

Multi. Purpose. Buttons. Seriously, scrolling through headphones and earpieces etc, it took me so long to find headphones with a 3 button control scheme (and personally I'd have preferred 5, separating skip track/last track from volume control) I'd rather they be a bit bigger and bulkier, but easy to use with 5 buttons that each have one job, rather than a sleek design with one button that does 5 different things depending on how you press it.

[@mayleecole1761]

This reminds me of a story I read paraphrasing during world war II bomber losses were unacceptable the general in charge of bombing assembled engineers to help cut down on losses for months every bummer that came home they meticulously counted every bullet hole in the bomber and presented their findings to the general on where extra steel plating on the bomber is needed at the end of the meeting the generals 9th grade educated driver ask if he could speak up the general told him yes he told the engineers you are counting holes in bombers that returned the place you should reinforce are places where there are no bullet holes bomber losses dropped over 40%

[@luisgentil]

I used to live in a building that had a triangular spiral staircase. It was hell to move furniture and you tell by the chips and scratches on the walls and corners that everyone suffered with it. Almost all my furniture that didn't come in a box had some sort of scratch on it because everything had to be squeezed through the staircase. I bought a box-spring which I had to return because it couldn't be moved upstairs, and instead bought a regular wooden bed frame. One of the most absurd design choices I've ever seen in person.

[@skylinefever]

You may have seen photos of a Lamborghini Countach and been amazed by the styling. However, if you watch a documentary about driving one, you might see that the car is extremely difficult to drive in daily situations.

[@shawn576]

Apparently backing up is an entire process. Best bet is to open the door and lean out just to see.

[@mightron]

there are so many private older working vehicles you can buy for a few k at most and then replace all fluids, battery, a bit of rebuilding, clean everything, and you're gtg

[@johnoneil9188]

The Windows 8 hidden options bar on the side. It activated when you came close to the right side with your cursor for any reason and then tended to be finnicky at times when you actually needed it.

[@zenithkaijaou4182]

Those phones with the massive screens that overflow the face of the phone and around the sides. I don’t want to have to leave it placed on the palm of my hand to use it to prevent unintentional interaction with the screen. I want to be able to grasp it and hold it tight when I use it. It feels more secure that way. Oh and the lack of a headphones plug hole.

[@builtontherockhomestead9390]

Back in 2020 a neighbor and I went to a town 60 miles away to get new tires on her vehicle. We walked over to a fast food place for lunch. Inside eating not allowed, only outside eating or drive-through. Vehicle in shop so we grabbed an outside table and went to website to see menu and order. After a lot of frustration I spot an employee bringing food out to others and asked for help. Told I had to download app to order. Nope. Not going to download an app just to order 1 meal and then delete app afterwards. Haven't been back to that town or fast food restaurant since. Thankfully employee took our order and money and went inside and placed it for us.

[@combinecommando001]

The mentality should like this when it comes to form and functionality. Make the thing you want to create purely functional THEN you can add form it. Put enough form that it does not take away from the functionality. Granted, it will not look as good as likely first intended, but it is something to look at and work as intended. I had a discussion with someone who taught to kids, he had them do a project in making tools, he urged them to focus on the function of the tools first, when he was satisfied with the function, he let them go wild on the form. He mixed creativity and pragmatism into one and the kids loved it. Meanwhile, the other teachers only focused on the form rather than functionality and sometimes the other way around, the kids they taught were miserable, their tools were either plain or so formed that they had no function because it would break easily.

[@luisgentil]

When we're too quiet eating in the dining area at work, lights go off and everyone starts flailing their arms up like a tube man until the lights go on again. It you're alone in the bathroom stall for long enough, you have to finish your business in the dark.

[@fab3laundry]

I have a pair of boots with zips on both sides. The zip that faces outward is fake and I keep trying to use it. The real zips are on the opposite side and are less obvious.

[@TheDarknessConsumesMe666]

That last one - dynamic or sequential LED turn signal I also don't like it, even on higher end vehicles. I prefer those "solid" on off LED turn signals, light that of the 2015 Range Rover Sport

[@Exorian]

13:41 Have you never played any of the Hitman games? The purpose of a tie is to carry a concealed butterfly knife

[@darenabryant9100]

The evolution of cars seems more like a devolution aimed at making people depend more and more on service centers than on their own know-how. Why would you make all these fiddly, hard to work around modifications otherwise? I owned an old 1988 Jeep that, although kinda busted, was also *super* easy to repair and I'm not even that good with mechanical things like that. I changed the oil filter, the hoses for the coolant, several of the fuses and the fuel line all by myself without the slightest bit of confusion. Now let me have tried that with a newer car and I would have either damaged it beyond repair, or been unwilling to try due to having no idea what I was doing. Later on, I bought a 2014 Jeep and it would flood every time it rained. I had no idea what was going on... turns out it had a clog in the drainage system for the sunroof; something there was no way I would ever have thought of or even knew existed, and they tried to add literal thousands of dollars on to that tag, claiming my perfectly functional AC unit was damaged and needed to be fixed.

[@DJdoppIer]

As a digital modeler that works directly under many different designers, I have never related to something more in my career. Many of the things they ask me to make just for "aesthetics" end up hindering the functionality of critical components / processes......and it fucking kills me inside. I sometimes wonder if they are actually trying to sabotage the products we make.

[@Quinn91202]

The excessive blind spot hiding parking lots in Florida is accurate

[@GreenAppelPie]

My professional documentation has space, headers, etc. yeah 20% of the space is wasted but it multiple times easier to read and find what you’re looking for.

[@LEXXIUS]

The reason car manufacturers go for touchscreens (which have no place in a car because of distractions) instead of buttons and dials is because one screen is cheaper than all the differently shaped buttons and dials, which require differend molds for injection molding which in turn increases cost.

[@user-ml3hl6vr4t]

The boardroom chandelier, I’d have on my safety glasses, sproing a bulb into the face and grab-flail and pull two fistfuls of it down. Facing workman’s comp questions and probably OSHA, thy would probably change it.

[@Jose04537]

They force you to create a user because they want you to connect (sign in) with your Google/Facebook account which is more convenient, so even the most meager business has all of your data.

[@canondocre8650]

In my last car, the battery was under the back seat. Thankfully, you didn't need to access the battery to give or receive a jump. It also made for a fantastic hiding place.

[@De19thKingJulion]

Car companies do that to help lower the car's centre of gravity; to improve its steering, braking & handling. This in turn can make the car's electronic active safety systems operate with less effort, making them smaller, lighter, simpler & less material-intensive; car is not likely to roll over or pitch & roll so intensely, taking the tyres off the road. It makes the cars harder to work on for sure! Heck, I drive a 20+year old car & if I need another vehicle, it's going to be something older &/or simpler.

[@skylinefever]

By not having the battery under the hood, it is less exposed to heat and lasts longer.

[@lyleswanson7557]

Engineers are second on the list, right after lawyers.

[@garystinten9339]

If cars had voice controls.. Heater 25% Wipers medium speed Radio: station name or frequency.

[@fab3laundry]

Washing machines with wifi connectivity.

[@lnsflare1]

Persona 3 through 5, including the spinoffs/side-stories we're more style than substance. On the other hand, they had metric tons of substance to go along with enough style that people cosplay as the menus of Persona 5.

[@mrshoeguy2477]

Idiocy over function: laptops where the USB ports are on the right side near the front so where does a right handed person put their mouse?

[@amyhamilton-romans3293]

Bras with metal wires that poke your ta-ta's!! Why aren't there metal wires inside men's boxers??

[@Highrollinhunter]

Them RadioShack Playstation 2 controllers are annoying af because of the start button being on top of the select button if you have small hands your f**ed. Most 3rd party PS2 controllers are poorly designed.

[@AA-hg5fk]

who on earth thought chairs with wheels and no locking mechanism would be a good idea for elderly people?!

[@rosettaelemental7275]

Literally all of modern women's fashion. Nonexistent pockets, too tight to comfortably move around in, too low necklines (that last one is a personal pet peve but I bet a lot of other women hate it too).

[@TrainTrackTrav]

All Samsung household appliances. Trust me, I know, I sell appliances for a living. Samsungs look stunning, best looking appliances ever, but they are always having problems. They're built so cheaply. You'll be lucky to get a couple years out of a Samsung appliance. NEVER buy a Samsung! Stick to Whirlpool, Maytag, LG, Frigidaire, and Electrolux.

[@vehimouchas9743]

Cosplays with elaborate armor, capes, props, wings, or people on stilts. They look awesome for photoshoots and for simply showing off though. But like a Spartan or a Transformer those cosplays can be uncomfortable to walk around a convention in and can get very hot and easily damaged. Especially if you are there all day.

[@jacobbesler3214]

IDK, for things like that I would say the design IS the function. Sure, wearability is an appreciable factor in cosplay, but if the goal was comfortable and convenient clothing, I wouldn't bother dressing up in the first place

[@miragedown]

That is just a description of cosplay. If that's the cosplay you want then you need to be willing to suffer. I personally don't want to but to each their own. I personally find the most fun in making the things. And also EVA is very durable.

[@LEXXIUS]

The awful and stupid steering yoke on Tesla plaid with touchscreen turn signals and horn.

[@EngineerDJ_Julius]

"broad answer comment" most modern technology is built for primarily aesthetics whereas pre 2000's technology was designed to last a century

[@j.tgrooms]

Sweet stories man

[@henrikhyrup3995]

Juicero

[@GreenAppelPie]

Cars should have voice controls

[@De19thKingJulion]

Many do. Some, though, require a phone to be hooked up to Android Auto or Apple CarPlay to enable voice controls. ☹

[@charmedrools1]

Americans complaining they can't accidentally trigger their airbags while mqshing their horn angrily will always be hilarious to me

[@musicstudio3700]

:-D

[@kajbaraj2978]

Second

[@birdiethedog28]

First

[@CheramieJessica1]

If you confess with your mouth Jesus is lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead you will be saved. please repent of your sins and accept Jesus Christ as your lord and savior.

[@dragoninthewest1]

Jeśus doesn't like when you do this kind of thing. Matthew 6:5-15, "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen."

[@TheBlazingK]

@@dragoninthewest1 thank you for sharing this. Imma look for this chapter and remember this. Have a bless day

[@fab3laundry]

She won’t read the comment because she spends all day copying and pasting it to as many videos as she can.

[@KelleysQuiltsandCruises]

I keep reporting the posts everywhere I see them.

[@rednetherbrick3178]

Unfortunately no one asked