This must be familiar to everyone.
Seriously, every time I mention this thing, I fly into a rage!
Since many people in the reply don't know what this is, let's fill in a picture.
This is the seat belt buckle.
In order to remind drivers and passengers to fasten their seat belts in time, the car will sound a seat belt warning after you sit in your seat. Some people don't want to wear a seat belt, and they are tired of the alarm, so they buy a safety bolt and plug it in. They don't wear a seat belt and there is no sound reminder.
Why is it a bad design? We must first review the history of seat belts.
Early cars did not have seat belts. With the development of automobile technology, the speed is getting faster and faster, and the probability of death in traffic accidents is getting higher and higher. People urgently need a device to reduce the death rate of drivers in traffic accidents.
1902 before a racing competition in new york, USA, a racing driver tied himself firmly to his seat with a belt. During the race, the driver's car ran out of control and accidentally rushed out of the track, causing casualties to the audience, while the driver was always tied to the car with a belt and finally survived. So other drivers followed suit and began to use seat belts in racing cars.
The "seat belt" at that time was a bit like the seat belt on the plane now.
1958, bolin was appointed as the chief safety engineer of Volvo at that time, responsible for developing safer seat belts. Bolin is very powerful. On the basis of previous research, he developed a three-point seat belt.
1959, Volvo applied for the patent of V-type three-point seat belt designed by Bolin.
Research shows that the use of seat belts can reduce the accident death rate by about 42%, while in China, the number of traffic accident deaths is 250,000 every year. If we put this proportion into the world and multiply it by a time span of 40 years, Bolin's invention has saved millions of lives.
that this is not the important question. The point is that Volvo will apply for a patent for this great invention for free!
Now everyone is talking about feelings, I think this is called feelings! When a great invention is closely related to the lives of millions of people, a company does not use it as a tool for its own profit, nor as a threshold for competition with its competitors, but gives it to competitors for free, because they know that business is to make money, but on top of making money, the essence of business is to make the world a better place.
This is the true face of Bolin, and every driver and passenger should thank him.
All this was shot to death by this invention.
I would like to remind you that the tinkling of a car is for your safety. Whether it is a driver or a passenger, this thing is a knife inserted in your body. Don't let it into your cab.
The good news is that Shenzhen has implemented regulations since June 27, 20 16, and drivers who don't wear seat belts in the back seat will be punished. I hope this is a good start, and this bad design will disappear from life through a strong law enforcement system.
Next, let's look at a "most inhuman design"
This year, I saw a lot of handles of this shape on my big Taobao, which were actually designed from Kimchi country. The name of this umbrella is "phone-brella".
The author designed this handle to facilitate users to use their mobile phones in rainy days, such as this.
Or like this
(The model is really attractive)
Why do I say this is the most inhuman design? Let's go back to my original definition. When designing products, designers should, of course, be as convenient as possible for users, but they should not touch the bottom line of safety. This is the designer's morality, and it is something other than technology.
I believe everyone has seen this video. I found the video address and deleted it. I really can't bear to watch it again. When watching the video, I could feel the despair of that woman at that time.
"Monitoring a woman playing mobile phone drowning in Wenzhou"
Traffic accidents caused by looking down at mobile phones are on the rise every year.
In 20 15, there were *** 1360 pedestrian traffic accidents caused by smartphones in Korea, an increase of about 250 cases over the previous year. In order to prevent such traffic accidents, Seoul has set up ground warning signs, hoping to reduce traffic accidents of "low-headed people".
In this context, designers should consider how to prevent pedestrians from looking at mobile phones at intersections through design behavior, rather than providing convenience for them.
Of course, some people will say that people who watch mobile phones will still watch them if you don't provide them with convenience. Here I want to quote a line from ethan hawke's Lord of War.
I will consume every second of your 24 hours, delay your delivery and delay your killing. This is not to deprive you of one day, but to give them one more day, so that many innocent people can live one more day because you lose your freedom.
Without this mobile phone-Brella, many people will not be able to watch their mobile phones because of holding an umbrella in rainy days, which is to recover some lives from death, even if there is only one.
Back to the origin of the question, what is a good design? What is humanized design?
I think good design meets the needs of human beings for the development of things, such as things that they carry with them, and the trend is light, portable and practical. Good design makes life more convenient, while good design makes life better, not threatening life.
I think the design of my umbrella is a good design.
The traditional round umbrella man is not in the center of the umbrella, which leads to waste of the left front umbrella surface and insufficient right rear umbrella surface. RealBrella adjusts the distribution of the umbrella surface so that people are basically located in the center of the umbrella, which is better for rain and sun protection.
This can solve the problem that the big umbrella has good rain-proof effect, but it is not in harmony with the whole. The small umbrella looks beautiful, but the rain-proof effect is not good. Ruile umbrella looks small, but it has the rain-proof effect of a big umbrella.