The Uncomfortable Project
The goal of this project was to re-design useful objects
making them uncomfortable yet remain usable. The
original item would maintain many of its original aspects yet one simple
change makes the object a design failure and frustrating to use.
Most of this woman's work is done using CAD models yet it is simple to grasp her intentions. I personally would like to see these exist as an exhibition and see how users interact with these objects.
The oreo; a tasty, accidentally vegan biscuit that you would believe has some sort of cult following based on how people react when you bring out a packet. Yet this inversion of the biscuit and filling would make it a disaster to eat, that is if you could get one out of the packet successfully...
Now this wine glass, a simple change to the size and orientation of the hole at the top can only lead to you looking prematurely drunk as you attempt to drink from this bad design.
And finally - a spoon... that you have no chance of using to scoop anything up, but that's alright - it's not like you could eat from it anyway...
These seem ridiculous but there are many real example of designs where simple things have been overlooked so that beautiful lemon squeezer you just bought - turns out the pips go everywhere and you barely get any juice... Oh well...
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