No not the Lucy Lawless/Grace Park/Tricia Helfer variety, but the kind you have in your kitchen.
A while back I needed a new one, so I went to Tescos and got one for £7! How can anything be that cheap? But I realised I'd made a mistake as it was too small to fit bread into. I'd end up having to make toast in two stages - i.e. doing it one way, then turning the bread around and doing it again.
So the other day I decided I'd had enough and bought a much bigger more expensive toaster (£20). Tried it out, and despite being much bigger externally, bread still doesn't fit!
As a designer of sorts (i.e. a software one) this sort of thing drives me mad. If your job is to design a toaster, how can you fail to consider whether or not typically sized bread fits into it? How can that not be the number one design criteria? And how is it that there's a market for selling crap that fails at it's basic function?
A while back I needed a new one, so I went to Tescos and got one for £7! How can anything be that cheap? But I realised I'd made a mistake as it was too small to fit bread into. I'd end up having to make toast in two stages - i.e. doing it one way, then turning the bread around and doing it again.
So the other day I decided I'd had enough and bought a much bigger more expensive toaster (£20). Tried it out, and despite being much bigger externally, bread still doesn't fit!
As a designer of sorts (i.e. a software one) this sort of thing drives me mad. If your job is to design a toaster, how can you fail to consider whether or not typically sized bread fits into it? How can that not be the number one design criteria? And how is it that there's a market for selling crap that fails at it's basic function?
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