93 Times Product Designers Failed To Consider The Practicality Of Cleaning, As Shared On This Facebook Group (New Pics)


I believe that a good design has to have at least these qualities - practicality, functionality, and an aesthetically pleasing appearance. But I also believe that not every designer has these qualities in mind when creating a new product. Therefore images on a Facebook group called Things designed by people who don't have to clean them have emerged with all sorts of objects designed in a way that just makes us feel mad. If the object turned out beautiful, that is not enough. We need it to be useful, easy to care for, and simply put - practical.

If a product design seems good on paper, that does not necessarily mean that it will be customer-approved. That is why each product design has to be tested before being sold to a broader consumer audience.

So, fellow Pandas, we invite you to see the worst possible designs, maybe learn a thing or two, and share in the comments which fail was the absolute worst for you. And if you would like to repeat this experience, see our previous post on Bored Panda here.

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#1 Finally Found Something That's Ewww Enough For Here

Image credits: Ricarda Martinez-Arden

#2 The Only Bad Thing About My New Place, This Built In Cutting Board Who On Earth Thought Of This

Image credits: Cleo Ek

#3 The Inside Of My Foster Puppy’s Flexible Cone Is A Textured Fabric That Can’t Be Wiped Down. It’s Foul After Just 2 Days, And He’ll Have To Wear It For 2-4 Weeks. The Person Who Designed This Clearly Never Had A Dog, Probably Never Met A Dog

Image credits: Chelsey Baker-Hauck

#4 The Handles To The Cabinet At The House My Dad Rented For Our Christmas Gathering

Image credits: Madeline Wise

#5 A Table At A Restaurant

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#6 Oven Knobs. 100(?) Years And They Still Have Crevices And Gaps For Gunk

Image credits: Frederick Schroeder

#7 Look At This Hellscape Of A Backsplash. Now Envision Whipped Sweet Potatoes That Had A Little Accident

Image credits: Leigh Sparacino

#8 Imagine That With Hard Water. Yeah... No Thank You!

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#9 Smells Exactly Like You'd Imagine

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#10 Absolutely Speechless. Yikes

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#11 Mmmmmm.... Just What I Need After Washing My Hands

Image credits: Liz Russian

#12 This Chandelier Made Of Sea Shells

Image credits: Taylor Wheeler

#13 Is This An Animal Shelter? By Animal, I Mean Spiders

Image credits: Robert Sheets

#14 Carpeted Laptop By Microsoft

Image credits: Zach Winsley

#15 Thank God For Shoes, Is All I Can Say

Image credits: Cristina Adyta

#16 This Card Holder In A Ford Focus

Image credits: Robin Antonius Pols

#17 This Waiting Room At A Hairdresser

Image credits: Cindy Von Liebig Uemura

#18 Phone Charging Point In Mcdonald’s

Image credits: Vicki MacMorgan

#19 Those Magazines And Shells In A Bowl Really Class Up This Bedside Table…

Image credits: Jessica Krt

#20 Saw This In My Death Stairs Group. I Think It Belongs Here Too

Image credits: Will Henry Jr.

#21 This Hospital Finger Thingy

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#22 At A Bar In Newfoundland And The Bathroom Handle Is Literally Rope

Image credits: Diana Loerke

#23 The Ninja Blender Handle

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#24 I Wonder If There Are Any Books On Hygiene

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#25 For The Low, Low, Price Of $120 You, Too, Can Have A Ridiculous Faucet With A Million Nooks And Crannies For Hard Water And Dried Toothpaste To Get Stuck In!

Image credits: Georgina Rice

#26 It's Fleece I Think

Image credits: Doris Laan

#27 This Sink At The Airbnb We Stayed At Earlier This Year

Image credits: Group member

#28 Found While Browsing My Local Fb Marketplace They Originally Paid $800+ For It

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#29 Spiders

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#30 My Boyfriends Shower ** Ok Let Me Add, I Live With Him, And The Reason It's So Clean Is.... Because I Live With Him Lol!

Image credits: Dawnielle Callaway

#31 Just.... Why???

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#32 Just Saw This On Instagram And The Eyeroll Was Instant

Image credits: Letícia Cianflone

#33 I Would Definitely Knock Something And Start A Whole Chain Effect Of Breaking Bottles And It Would Be Impossible To Clean

Image credits: Brune Bonassi

#34 This Glitter Encrusted Soap Dispenser (The Glitter Rubbed Off In My Hand)

Image credits: Caitlynn Stone

#35 Every Rainforest Cafe…

Image credits: Jennifer McIlhenny

#36 Those Windows. Why In The Hell

Image credits: Ramón Edgar

#37 Althought It Looks Very Cool And Is A Nice Art Piece, To Be Used As An Actual Coffee Table Is One Spill Away From A Nightmare (Those Channels Filled With Rock Are Actual Channels, Not Filled In With Anything)

Image credits: Carter Breckenridge

#38 This Channel 3" From The Edge Of My Parents' Dining Room Table. It Has Been The Bane Of My Existence Fir At Least 35 Years. Crumbs For Scale

Image credits: Kathy Beach Parsons

#39 Do You Enjoy Cleaning Your Guitar?

Image credits: Ana Cristina Cabral

#40 My Regular Apple Watch Silicone Band Gets Manky Enough. Imagine The Grime That Would Get Stuck In These Groves

Image credits: Bree-Anne Kaiser

#41 Anyone Got A Guess To How Many Spiders This Could Potentially House? Lol. Spotted At Magnolia

Image credits: Becky Roetker

#42 This Is An Airnbn In Madrid. Yuk

Image credits: Tete Malato

#43 Things Sold By People Who Don’t Want To Clean Them?

Image credits: Zoë Sanderson

#44 Couldnt It Just Have Been A Normal Straw…

Image credits: Hilda Henriksson-Ragneskog

#45 These Seats Of The Stands In A Nearby Ice Arena

Image credits: Cory Brydges

#46 Found In The Wild. It Gives Me The Shivers

Image credits: Ari Saint James

#47 Big Soft Building Blocks At The Public Playroom. The Velcro

Image credits: Doris Laan

#48 The Wall In Our Hotel Lobby

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#49 Public Toilet In A Pub. This Hand Dryer Is Directly Above This Radiator, So All The Drips From Wet Hands Are Causing This Rust And Yuckiness!

Image credits: Heather Chapman

#50 Oh, The Irony

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#51 I Finally Have Something To Post!!! At A Local Spottttt!

Image credits: Krissy McLaren

#52 A Wall At My Job… Dang

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#53 Found A Bunch Of These In The Clearance Section Of The Shoe Store, Can't Imagine Why

Image credits: Em Lėg

#54 This Rope Wall At A Sushi Place

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#55 This Lovely Little Groove In The Airplane Bathroom Paper Towel Dispenser

Image credits: Peter Ryan Zich

#56 Sink At A Doctors Office. Corners Were Gross

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#57 Silicone Hot-Pad With Little Squares. I've Tried Soaking And A Scrub Brush And More Soaking And More Scrubbing, Repeat, And Am Now Convinced They Were Designed By People Who Didn't Have To Clean Them

Image credits: Allx LittleCole

#58 The Vents On Hand Dryers. I Refuse To Use Them

Image credits: Kelly Dee

#59 * Internal Screaming *

Image credits: Rachel Britton

#60 I Can Sense The Soap Slime From Here

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#61 These White, Furry Fabric Dining Chairs

Image credits: Sara Owen

#62 Bathroom Sinks At Ford’s Garage Dearborn Michigan. Great Place For A Burger And A Beer

Image credits: Katy McCormack

#63 A Coffee Shop In Bedford, England, That Uses Real Books As Wallpaper. There Is Visible Dirt On The Paper

Image credits: Amanda Rall

#64 The 'Grand Stair' At The Ovolo Nishi Hotel, Canberra, Australia

Image credits: Chloe Holt

#65 The Bathroom Sink In The Tavern On Pike In Seattle. Didn't Even Want To Look At All The Gunk Caked Under The Edges

Image credits: Peter Davies

#66 This Came Through On R/Helpmefind. It’s Gorgeous, But I Ain’t Cleaning It

Image credits: Emily Lai Wells

#67 Why?! Teeny Tiny Feet On A Food Processor

Image credits: Emily Lai Wells

#68 After A Few Years Of D&d'ing With Cheeto Fingers

Image credits: Mathias Vendt

#69 The Nutribullet Blender…

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#70 The Hollow Handle On This Thanksgiving Gravy Boat. Added Bonus: It's Too Constricted In The Middle For Me To Run A Pipe Cleaner Through It

Image credits: Debra Utz Ritger

#71 That Weird Amorphous Mass In The Corner Is Wool Or Felt. Imagine The Grease Build Up

Image credits: Treena Daly

#72 I Posted This In You Should Have Hired An Architect, But Everyone There Thought This Bannister Belonged Here Too

Image credits: Allison Beer McKenzie

#73 This Was An Instagram Ad I Had. I Would Hate This Honestly. Carpet Feels Abrasive And Yeah I Think This Would Get Nasty Over Time

Image credits: Phillip J. Diaz

#74 The Ceiling Of The Mexican Restaurant I Went To Yesterday. I’m Sure No One Is Attempting To Clean This, But That Just Makes It Worse. Thank Goodness We Ate Outside

Image credits: Rachel Wright

#75 We Call That Style Of Lighting Fixture "Spider Jungle Gym"

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#76 I’ve Used A Toothpick At The Top To Clean The Toothpaste/Calcium Out Of The Little Holes. I Won’t Show You What Came Out Of The Rim At The Top

Image credits: Lulu Titi Johnson

#77 The Vent In The Bathroom At Work

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#78 This Building In Burlington, Ontario Has A Balcony But No Door To Access It To Clean It

Image credits: Becca Coles-Gillespie

#79 In The Wild

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#80 This Weird A*s Lampshade In A Restaurant Right Next To The Kitchen. It Seems To Be Made Out Of Fishing Nets Or Something

#81 Can We Talk About Mirror Mazes?

Image credits: Kelsey Goodwin

#82 This Ceiling At The Blood Donation Center

Image credits: Katie Yam

#83 The Og Leather Seats In A Car From The 60's... The Side Interior Have The Same Pattern, You Can Just Squeeze A Toothpick Or Nail In The "Rails"

Image credits: Julia Raven

#84 This Pub Bathroom That Was Built Around The Cliff Instead Of Through It, Giant Natural Rock Wall Right Next To A Urinal

Image credits: Dakota Ash

#85 Can't Go Out Tonight, I Have To Water My Shoes

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#86 This Ring. I Wanted Something Plain But Cute Since I Was A Nursing Student But Never Considered How Impossible It Is To Get Dry Lotion And Gunk Out Of The Hearts

Image credits: Riannah Davis

#87 These Beautiful Hand Crafted Mugs

Image credits: Erena Faith

#88 This Just Showed Up In My Feed. I Can Smell This Image

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#89 So I Used A Public Restroom And Someone Thought It Was Okay To Have A Feather Boa For Decoration... In A Public Restroom

Image credits: Kate Ho-Gland

#90 These Jars Which Were Awesome For Frozen Watermelon Slushies Yesterday For My Daughter’s Halloween Birthday… Feeling Less Smart This Morning

Image credits: Victoria Heales

#91 Please Has Someone Figured Out How To Clean This?! It’s On My Cooktop — It’s Been My Nemesis Since I Moved In

Image credits: Allen Rodriguez

#92 This "Flower Light" At A Restore Resale Shop

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#93 Found At Costco

Image credits: Scott Luong Campbell


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