usability fail.
usability fails are everywhere and it’s sad.
hygiene FAIL
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1 Jun 2009You can have soap or water…but not both! When the faucet is on, it is impossible to squeeze your hand above the tap to get some soap. The odd part is that there was plenty of room next to each sink to fit the soap dispenser, which is what every other public bathroom in the world does. Is this some odd way to get us to conserve water by shutting it off for the one second that it takes to grab some soap?
The gross part: you know how people are too lazy to type “www.”? Well, people are also too lazy to try too terribly hard to properly wash their hands. Sure, you could turn on the water, wet your hands, turn off the water, pump some soap, turn the water on again and lather vigorously. But let’s be realistic – only the anal-retentive do that, and the anal-retentive aren’t going to be Patient 0 during the next black plague, now, are they?
For more sink fails, check out this missive on infrared taps.
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My name is Leanna Gingras and I'm a graduate student at the University of Michigan's School of Information. My main vice is angry muttering. Instead of angrily muttering to myself whenever I encounter an astonishingly ineptly-designed object, I will mutter about it here and you can read it and we can angrily mutter together. I'll also be posting about stuff I do, links I think are nifty, and places I go.
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