Re: Worst design decisions?

[Scott Granados <scott () wworks net>]

Your all missing my most favorite bad design decision.

And I know that in other areas this has been mentioned and made fun of
enough but ...

Who thought it was a good idea to put braille on the drive up atms?


And having a contact in banking I do know that banks pay extra for this
feature its not just a case that they are all made this way.


On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Ben Browning wrote:

> > > > Was doing some upgrades on a UBR7246 (to a VXR), and I got to thinking
> > > > about short sighted design considerations.  I was curious if any of you
> > > > had some pet peeves from a design perspective to rant about.  I'll start
> > > > with a couple.
>
> Here are a few of mine:
>
> The little clippy widgets (looks kind of like @) on some oldschool racks,
> that hold the nut in place for the hex-head bolt. Why these were considered
> desirable is beyond me.
>
> The slimline DS3 patch panels. God help you should you need to do something
> with the two innermost wires on the back end of that- there's barely room
> for pliers, much less fingers.
>
> Procurve switch management interface. Archaic, arcane, insane, unusable.
>
> Cisco V-notched power cables - Design "feature" geared around getting
> suckers to buy a power cable for 45USD.
>
> ~Ben
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