MichaelPorter, 10 months ago

Today in #BadDesign - Saw this at my sister’s place in Calgary. The utensil drawer in the kitchen is inside a bigger drawer. To get a utensil, you must first pull out the big drawer, and then reach in and pull out the smaller utensil drawer. The utensil drawer does not come out by default.

Crime: Making a frequent task require more than twice as much effort than it should. Get the thumbscrews.

17th-century thumbscrew, Märkisches Museum Berlin. Text above and below the picture reads “Thumbscrew Award” From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumbscrew_(torture)#/media/File:16XX_Daumenschraube_anagoria.JPG Modified to add the text.