The Opposite Of Design Fails

[Pyan]

A thread that celebrates the fact that not all "design" ends up on a humorous and mocking Reddit thread...

A bench that lets you choose if you want to watch the playground or the harbour.

 

[Pyan]

In the Netherlands, they have special nets , so cyclists don't have to pull over and stop to get rid of their litter.

 

[Pyan]

 

[Alex The G and T]

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This is antithetical to american practice. My local megamart routinely moves things about. They put similar items in different sections. they have multiple sections with related items.

The goal, clearly, is to keep the shopper moving; to expose them items that they weren't planning to buy.

Which means that the swedish version is, in fact a design fail when it comes to moving more merchandise.

 

[mosaix]

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I've often thought that supermarkets should provide a downloadable map to mobiles for exactly this. But, as @Alex The G and T says, this would be against commercial policy. My local supermarket regularly moves stuff around to stop me just going to the stuff I want and ignoring the rest.

 

[CupofJoe]

It might depend of the market the shop is serving. My local garden centre [which is huge and sprawling] has maps all over the place to let you know where things and you are. They haven't changed in years. It caters to families and the retired who know what they want and need to know how to get there.. I guess it probably doesn't get many on-the-spur shoppers.

 

[Yozh]

A thread that celebrates the fact that not all "design" ends up on a humorous and mocking Reddit thread...

A bench that lets you choose if you want to watch the playground or the harbour.

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Our commuter trains have seats like this, at end of line when train is ready to head out other direction, conductors flip all the seats to face the new “forward.” And groups riding together can flip the seats to sit facing each other.

Unfortunately, I heard they’re getting new trains and doing away with this feature.

 

[Pyan]

Highway bridge in Canada made deliberately wide and planted to give wildlife a safe passage.

 

[Ursa major]

The goal, clearly, is to keep the shopper moving; to expose them items that they weren't planning to buy.

They also do other things to manipulate the customer, such as putting the items they prefer you to buy (the most profitable brands) closer to eye level.

Oh, and at school (this would have been in 1974), we were told, in Economics, that supermarkets put the essentials, such as milk**, farthest from the entrance, so the customers would have to pass all the other things for sale on the way there. In a sort of plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose way, it's now the alcoholic drinks that are farthest from the entrance in most supermarkets I visit. Progress....


** - Back then, milk didn't keep for ages in the fridge (give or take the long-life stuff that I'd rather not use).

 

[Pyan]

Benches that you can move along into the shade depending on the time of day.