Designers Who Should Go To Hell For Their Ideas - Part 4 

For the glass toilet stall, I would just sit there and make eye contact with anyone who walks past while letting it rip. You have to assert dominance sometimes.

For the hotel room that promised a larger "TV", I would immediately ask for a refund and I would stay at another hotel.

My mom is a graphic designer and she said the #1 rule of designing is function. These are clearly people who don’t actually know how to properly design, which is just sad

19:17 Another thing they like to do is force students to be able to use the books for one term. If a student were to repeat a class or have a class that uses the same book, students are forced to rebuy the book. At the end of the term, the student must sell the book at an extreme loss of value whether or not it were binded, and repurchase the same book next semester. If students did not go along with that, they would be thrown out of the class for not being prepared. I can not explain how profoundly it pissed me off the times I had to repurchase the same book five times in a row, as the classes covered different sections of the book, at a price of 250 bucks only to sell them for 15 bucks.

"Ya'll playing full-court or half-court?' "Uh... 7/8 court"

The light at the end of the college tunnel... is a freight train load of debt!

The wire bench in the subway in Philly was a single prototype designed to allow both sitting at the ends and leaning in the middle. It's robust and long-lasting and easy to keep clean and doubles as an art installation. It does also deter people from sleeping on it. It was too expensive to mass-produce.

8:12 - That's actually a form of what's called "hostile architecture" (look it up on Wikipedia) - entire forms of otherwise-unnecessary and -inconvenient design "features" made solely for the purpose of driving away homeless and impoverished people (without actually helping them). According to the Wikipedia article (which did cite sources that did support the claim), one subway admin department actually posted a Tweet admitting that they had removed normal benches from the subway to stop homeless people from sleeping on them - not just discriminating against people in poverty, but also hurting long-distance travelers and people with disabilities (who needed those benches) in the process.

An AMC theater in my town has "WOMEN" and "MEN" painted outside their restrooms. No problem, that's fine. But one of the theaters when you are exiting, it is a long corridor you need to walk from the theater seating area to main hallway. After the movie ends, staff opens the door so customers can leave the theater. You can see the bathroom as you are walking down this corridor, but you can only see the letters "MEN" (the "WO" is hidden from view due to the door frame). I had my hands full of popcorn and personal items, not paying attention to where I was going, and walked right into the women's room completely by accident. Try explaining that to a police officer.

As a designer, most times, it's not so much the designer but people who think they can do the designers job because they think it's "easy" AND/OR the developer/upper management/client who want to cut cost wherever they can or trying to meet consumer demands.

Another pretty bad thing related to college textbooks are some come with a code for an online version where you also turn in homework basically forcing you to buy a new copy instead of trying to save money getting a used copy

I just recently bought some caramel filled eggs for Easter. I opened the packaging to see the little paper tray they were contained on was half empty. There was a clear filling showing what you got. 21:35 explains it way better.

If I was scammed by any of this stuff, I'd instantly demand a refund. If I pay for a sandwich, I expect to get what I pay for. Same with the TV. I would actually demand that they upgrade my room, or give me my money back, and go stay elsewhere. Screw them getting one over on me: I'd make sure I got my money's worth. That's why you should keep your receipts. Make a fuss until you are treated fairly. If they wont agree? Then you report them to the Fair Business Bureau or something similar. They will usually back down and give you what you actually paid for, rather than risk being hit with heavy fines.

I love that you people shine the light on the world's mental gymnastics.

There's a lot of anti-homeless architecture around us. It's pretty crappy how we as a society kick people when they're down.

Me: oh come on, it can't get worse than a fridge smack dab in the middle of a room. Idiots: oh, it can, (carpeted bathroom) Me: NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

The unbinded textbook, at least you can put it in a folder/binder along with notes and stuff, the real evil part is sometimes they change a couple things and update it slightly, and issue it as a new edition which is much more expensive

I've been encountering this sort of candy packaging deception for several years. For instance, this year's chocolates come in the identical _looking_ boxes as previous offerings, even as to graphics. However, in a store crowded with holiday shoppers, you might not check out the labeling, so when you get home, remove and dispose the Cellophane or plastic film wrapper, and open the box, you find spacers among the chocolates---which are fewer in number than last year's. _Then_ you check the label and find you paid the same, or similar, price as last year for fewer ounces/chocolates. I personally would understand a rise in price, due to inflation, for the same weight/number as last year. We don't like it, but inflation, like death and taxes are constants. Stay safe, everyone.

20:22 it’s safe to say that the only award that graduate gets is a Darwin Award.

That mini sun street light was made in Ohio? No wonder

The fridge was probably bigger then what was originally there, and the owners, not wanting to go with a smaller fridge, or box in their kitchen's open air design, decided to make this compromise. When I remodeled my condo kitchen, I had to make some weird tough choices too. It happens. Personally, I don't think it is as bad as it at first appears. You have to imagine some paintings on the wall, and maybe a chair or table next to it. It's basically just a XL column that has a fridge hidden in it.

Australian here...I like how Woolies removed single use bags then the next week they bring out chopped onions in single use plastic containers. As for single use bags, they always got more than one use in my household. They were used as bin liners, storage bags, carry bags, etc. etc. Where I live on the Sunshine Coast, I never saw any single use bags by the roadside nor on the beaches!

"Look to the future!" Wow, the futures coming fast, I can see it getting brighter already!

Imagine going to a store to buy Duracell batteries, only to end up with DuraSell. This happened to me a couple decades ago, and I didn't even notice it until I got the batteries home and took a better look at the packaging. Other than the 'mispelled' name, the packaging looked genuine, same color scheme and everything. The batteries themaelves were real cheap and nasty, both in the way the contacts looked and that they leaked.

As a college student, I would like to say that I greatly prefer loose leaf textbooks. I put mine in binders. I have a big binder for the textbook as a whole and a smaller one for the specific section we are working on in class. It allows me go carry less weight around in my backpack. Also the textbook can sit perfectly flat when reading it.

13:20 Looks like they did the wires BEFORE putting it in the wall, then remembered they had to label the thing RIP

The fact that these things are legal goes to show how flawed the legal system is.

with that tv trickery i would ask for a refund

Someone approved these designs. Think about that for a moment. Especially with the city planning ones, someone had to sit down in a conference, look over the plans, and approve them. Like, how does someone look at the plans for that basketball court at 7:08 or the buttons on that bus and think "yeah, that's fine"

I’m so glad I ditched FB and IG a year ago, I’ve never felt better. 🙏

Oh my god, you hit the nail on the money with American college text books. I'm over here expecting to be in debt with student loans for a long time due to the tuition and text books being outrageously expensive. And the stupid paper text books require you to get a binder on top of that, the pages are easy to tear because of jostling in a bag, etc. I believe I even had to buy one of these stupid things for $124, not including the textbooks for my other three classes. Cengage saved me a lot of money, thankfully.

Another example of a very commonly used and very misleading sales tactic occurs when advertisers show a photo of their product while using what's called a "hand model". Problem with this is if the model has very small hands, it can send a falsified impression as to whatever size the item actually is! I guess in some cases, size really does matter!

1:45 we can all agree (ok most of us can) that apple started going down hill once Steve Jobs died

Being a recent college graduate that worked at our school bookstore I very much agree with the BS that is the loose leaf text books. One of the Calculus Early Transcendentals textbook is somewhere around $100-$300 depending on where you get it. However, you can find it online and print it yourself instead of paying the money for some company printing it for you.

call button panel: I've seen one laid out like that, turned out that some of the apartments had gone through renumbering and they decided to keep the buttons linked to their original units to not screw up peoples' muscle memory.

My wife and I live in Robertson in South Africa, about two hours drive away from Cape Town. Last year for our Anniversary we wanted to go to Cape Town, so my wife scoured the internet for a hotel to book us a room. She found what seemed to be a nice hotel with reasonably priced rooms. She opted to book an apartment suite with views over the city and ocean, at least that was what we thought we were booking... This specific hotel also has room "pods" (basically just a bed with a basin, shower and toilet) for cost conscious people who need somewhere to sleep for a night. The website is set up in a very deceptive way. When we arrived at the hotel and booked in, we were directed (not taken) to our room: they had put us in a pod (I have to add here that our infant daughter was with us also). I went down to the lobby to complain and set it right, but was told "the price underneath the photos is not for one of the apartment suites" despite the email confirmation stating that we had in fact booked a suite instead of a pod with no windows. We ended up paying three times more for a suite, only to find out that the elevator did not go up to the top floor, we had to climb the remaining two flights with an infant and heavy luggage. We entered our suite to be greeted with broken cabinets, damaged couches, loosely fitted power sockets and badly finished walls. After rather scathing emails and google reviews from me we were offered a free weekend in THE SAME ROOM. Needless to say we declined the offer...

The weird thing is that apple doesn’t give you the charger or charging port, but it gives you a sticker of their logo. Like come on apple... do better

The life after college picture is the most truthful thing that's said about US colleges here lately.

The part about the bench looking like The Hulk took his anger out on a radiator had me rolling in pure mirth 🤣🤣🤣

3:00 Yeah, it’s not about packaging waste, it’s about making you buy more of their products. Like when they discontinued the headphone jack, but then sold adapters and SURPRISE AirPods.

This series is one of my favorites of this channel, and it gets better every time.

16:13 - if you look closely package says 6 blades and 1 razor...and this is that in package.

12:33 There is a outdoor bathroom that some guy was showing off how it goes from being made of glass when no one is it to a regular bathroom. It was like some sort of special design that severally blurs when someone turns it on.

I'm not sure that hell exists, but hypothetically, if it does, there's bound to be a special section for people involved in marketing at every level.

The public’s toilet with a glass door. The glass blurs when it is locked it’s an easier way that to look for shoes under the stall or awkwardly knock.

When I was in Senior high, I had a groupmate who has a macbook and was supposed to pass me a part she made for our research paper. On the due day, we had a terrible time getting the data into my non-apple devices and I swore that day that I will never ever use any apple product and boy cott those sh** away from me.

the tv thing is actually illegal. If he reported it to the hotel then he could sue the hell out of them if they didn't refund him after paying extra for a room with a particular service that is not provided.

Overall, it's a good video, but on the textbook picture, there is literally the explanation for why it is looseleaf 3-punched on the bottom 1/3 of the book on the right. Also, it is super common to take your books to staples or wherever and have the binding cut off and punched. I actually saved by buying non-hardcover-bound books this way. The REAL *scam* is the small changes they make between editions that are 'upgraded and updated' each year, rendering the previous version worthless b/c the pg numbers are off by 20 pages, examples, and assignable-type content is swapped or numbers or changed. That stuff is nonsense.

The glass stalls have a built-in layer that makes them go opaque then you lock the door.

Recent trick: Restaurant chains offering 'free food or drink' and in the smallest print possible 'when ordered through our app' (which some restaurants never honor).

The super glue containers are actually genius ideas. The sides of those containers squeeze equally across the entire surface of the super glue pouch so you actually get more out of it not less. One of the major issues with things like toothpaste and super glue pouches is no one really squeezes from bottom up, rolling them up as they go and in the case of Super glue you lose a lot to the bottom that evaporates away.

For the TV scam, i would probably slowly load my gu- **AHEM** Anti-Home invasion device, as i'm walking up to the receptionist.

On the one hand, I really like the loose leaf design because it allows me to add note paper for additional notes, and to update the book if necessary. On the other hand the fact that they INCREASED price instead of passing on the savings just demonstrates the terrible evil involved.

The one with the superglue bottles is easily comparable to a skinny dude wearing a suit that makes them look really strong, like in cartoons.

Crush Apple -- by actually talking to someone Face-to-Face. What an ecological friendly concept

I have a Jenga stacking toy thing, but instead of coming into a square/rectangular shape, it is in a circular/cylinder shape. This wouldn't be a problem but, the Jenga pieces are rectangular, making it harder to be put into the cylinder shape. I don't play Jenga as often as I used to, though (For this reason). (Edit:) I almost forgot about certain wiring in my room were in a certain outlet, if you plug something in, it won't work unless you have the light on, I recently moved my bed over the other outlet (that works) not knowing my mistake. And I like the lights off when I use my computer, plus I share a room with my twin sister, so when she tries to get some sleep, I can't do the stuff I do on my computer.

23:36 I would throw the keys off the balcony strategically threw in a deep spot in the pool, break the wood with an axe and leave a message on a note saying “Sad life, you got tricked.” Yes that is how i would react.

I used to take the Market-Frankford line frequently. I had no idea those were supposed to be benches. I thought it was some kind of art installation.

Regarding college textbooks, I can add that the scandal goes further than most people think. The companies that make college textbooks solicit professors to write chapters of textbooks, which is often agreed to because it feels prestigious and maybe even profitable and because they're encouraged to by school administration. The reality, however, is that the authors make next to nothing, often under $100 in royalties. Furthermore, when those professors get the idea of using their own material to teach a course, the book companies threaten to sue the very authors who essentially wrote their textbooks for free, not just for exact wording but even for similar wording of examples, etc., which works because who has the money to go to court against a corporation? And even when professors get around that, the companies often apply pressure on the schools to not allow free alternatives in course requirements by offering profit sharing with the schools conditioned upon management preventing teachers from using "unapproved" course textbooks. Textbooks have become an unofficial middle class tax, since education is often required for obtaining a middle class job, and there's an entire corrupt system supporting that tax. It might seem minor, but on average each college student will spend upwards of $2000 on books just at the undergraduate level.

It's one of those skills you need to learn these days, I guess. Learning lawyer style word games. Whatever is on the packaging is probably... technically correct, but also probably phrased in the most appealing way they could get away with. Like the pieces versus pens example.

12:28 - suggestion for bathroom with glass door: take all the toilet paper (from another cabin) and stick it with water on the glass part of the door. The restaurant owner may not go to hell because of the door design... But he will bitterly regret it.

20:58- Okay, so there can be something uneatable in a cake but no Kinder Eggs with toys inside. Right.

6:33 can't even sleep in Ohio

The college books scheme (buy them for lots of money, sell them back for very little) does suck a bit, however, it didn't bother me as much as the Jostens deal with my High School. Shuffling into the assembly for graduation info, my friend told me I could use her sister's graduation gown from the SAME high school just two years earlier. Since the gowns, hats and tassels all get purchased separately, I said "sweet 👍". Then we sat down and included in all the important graduation info the principal spouted off to us was the COMMAND "You will NOT rent or borrow your graduation gown or buy one from anywhere else, you WILL BUY a new gown directly from Jostens." Being the auburn haired, german, aries 17 year old that doesn't like illogical BS, OR being ordered around and told what I will and will not do by anyone with absolutely zero legal right or reason to do so, I said, "the F***" I will!" I did not buy a gown and I did not go to my high school graduation. When I graduated college, my graduation gown was still purchased from Jostens but it cost 1/4 of the price they wanted for my high school one. Such a complete waste of money for an ugly, uncomfortable scrap of table cloth that everyone in the world buys from one company, wears once and may as well throw it away. It's not like my step kids are pulling it out of the closet to play dress up...😡

5:00 This reminds me of those "news" articles or slideshow list that when you try to click the next button, the page suddenly loads an ad that wasn't there and it moves under your click so you go to the ad site instead of the next thing you wanted.

These designers are gonna become the devils new right hand

The amount of puns in this channel is just why I want to watch these when im low

I don't care how uncomfy something's is. If I feel tired, I'm going to make the uncomfy, comfy

The 'New' 3DS of Nintendo did the same even before Apple; we had to buy an extra charger because it wasn't included in the package.

Instead of them actually doing their job, they're lying to their loyal customers. Edit: Thx for the likes my comments mostly don't get any reaction at all

12:44 When you lock the door, a small electric current makes the glass go frosted somehow.

My favorite deceptive marketing is subway sandwich commercials. There's what's advertised-a big juicy sandwich full of meat and then there's what you actually get. Two pieces of bread with 3 slices of meat between them.

I thought it was gonna say tuition fees for school, but only talks about the books. Both are a huge scam!

Fun fact about super glue (any brand): they cost nearly nothing to produce, yet cost an arm and a leg for the tiny amount we get. Why so expensive? Stores gotta make profit some how. The store I worked at bought the super glues for roughly a quarter each. Sold them for $1.75 -2.50. We were still on the cheaper side compared to the competition. The only things in a hardware store that doesn't have much (if any) added to the price are hammers.

I have to admit, the dino pillowcase and before/after mug kind of fit my weird sense of humour 😅

AARP once sent me a letter designed to appear to be a tax document, so I would open it. I was promptly removed from their mailing list after a nice lecture about deception...

The fact he says a sarcastic hooray in such a normal voice xD

14:39 didnt even see the bath bomb label until it was mentioned 😭

As for the college textbook deal, I go to college for Aviation to become an A&P(basically a mechanic for aircraft.) We are required to buy Jeppesen textbooks, Jeppesen being a company owned by Boeing. We get our nice and fancy expensive textbooks, only to find out that NOT A SINGLE PERSON HAS PROOF READ THEM. Quote from Jeppesen General Textbook. Pg 2-63, figure 2-122:"The trust produced by the tail rotor is sufficient to move the helicopter laterally." According to Jeppesen, the trust I have in the tail rotor will move the helicopter.

scamwiches: could also be cinematic sandwiches meant to look appetizing even after multiple takes of the same scene. (in which case nothing of the sandwich is consumable as the actor only pretends to chow down on it)

One of my Chemistry professors at university insisted we purchase a particular textbook for his class (written by him) at a cost of $200 Australian. During the course of the semester we used the textbook precisely twice.

I have actually sat on those benches in the picture they're in Philadelphia. And if you sit on them make sure you got thick pants on because it's cold as ice

About the college books I had bought over $700 worth (5 used and 1 new) for a semester only to try and sell them back and at the end and for the sellers to offer me less than $20 in return. I just gave them away to a friend who was going to tame may of the same classes the following semester and as only one book was no longer the right edition (still usable as the new edition changed none of the content but had basically just changed page numbers) saved him loads of money that he really did not have. The company in charge of selling and buying back the books also had a book rental option with the hidden catch that you had to return the books about two weeks before the end of the semester when you still needed them to study and do your class work or else pay the cost of re-renting them again for the following semester even if you were not going to use them the second semester. Eventually the university switched to another agency (sometime after I left) and aside from the rental scam they, according to some friends of mine whom were still going there, were basically just as bad if not worse in all other regards.

The strangest thing I saw recently was a manual transmission knob. At first glance, it looked normal and had the shift pattern on the top but then I did a double take and noticed that above the gears was braille. You know, the language that blind people read. Why on earth would they use braille on something that no blind person in the world would be able to use? Maybe it was Mr. Magoo's car.

I've experienced cosmetics products deception before. I got a rather large box for an eyebrow pencil, but the pencil wasn't even 1/4 the size of the box!

Man, I'm so happy we have "Consumer Protection" here, to prevent this kind of deception.

If I got a tv like that I would sue for false advertisement

The "unbound Textbooks" scam, I think, is meant to encourage a class to get together, have one student buy the book, and everyone goes to Kinkos and pays for one copy at a much cheaper price.

I detest packaging that appears to have more of a product in it!! I make sure I NEVER use it again and I have a speacial F.B. page that I photograph these objects to tell ppl about it.We are being gouged,bullsh*ted,husseled by so many HUGE companies .WE HAVE TO STOP ACCEPTING IT !!! Thank you @Be Amazed for your great content & bringing attention to issues like this. BOOYAH!!!!

11:03 once you see it u can’t unsee it

The first year of college, I wasn't aware of what a "loose leaf" edition of textbooks meant. I paid over $120 for the book, and it doesn't even come with spirals.

Fun fact: apple often gets sued because they don't provide the chargers and such. But they still won't include them because the lawsuits cost less than the production of so many chargers

I used to work at an office supply store, and I was blown away how many people came in to have the binding cut off their textbook and then triple hole punched. I guess a lot of students like to have their textbook in a binder. Either way, textbook costs are exorbitant.

20:07 Hey, uh, fun fact, most college bookstores will buy back for pennies on the dollar the regular, bound, textbooks, but will flat out refuse to touch a loose-leaf/unbound copy.

When I was young and worked in food at a college, there was a grill top stove that you had to steam clean while hot, then dump the tray insert afterwards. It’s where all of the funk, chemical, and water went. When you pull out the tray insert it is about 1.5” deep, and about 3’ wide by 3’ long. You had to be a miracle worker not to dump the whole contents of oily mess into the floor. We could put a wide mop bucket or whatever under it and it was still difficult. Who designs a commercial catch tray to be less than two inches tall? 🤦🏽‍♀️

When I was a kid in the 80's, I took apart my Atari 2600. I was shocked to find several lead weights inside it, obviously placed there to give heft to the console to make it seem like it had more electronics in it.

17:31 The manufacturer of that box can also put drugs inside it’s box and in a truck full of box with drugs inside saying that they will deliver it on the place where they sell beauty products no one will get suspicious and if the guards checked the inside of the box they will only see a beauty product inside

I’m addicted to this channel

I just realized that the last one showed two of the same earbud that you put in your right ear😂😂😂😂😂

One time when I was at a house party as a teen, I noticed that house kinda had a slight distinct odor of mold and piss. I went to use the bathroom and the smell intensified as I got closer to the bathroom door. I opened the door and was nose raped by the horrific stench. That floor had wall to wall brown shag carpeting, which had to have been there for at least 40-50 years. I just walked out of there and went home without thinking twice and left my shoes outside for the rest of the month.