Over on Quora, there’s a fun discussion about worst-designed products ever. It’s well worth reading, and voting on. Representative nominees:

• the infamous butterfly ballot that bequeathed the George W. Bush “presidency” to us (which itself was very badly designed)
• the sort of plastic clamshell packaging that requires garden shears to open
• the obviously un-ergonomic Apple puck mouse with the too-short cord
  
• with special honorable mention going to this squirt gun, for obvious reasons

  

But bar none, the worst design has to go to the  Reliant Robin, an English car that we are very very lucky never made its way to Los Angeles. Forget earthquakes, riots, gang wars, and the state budget deficit, the Reliant Robin would be the one disaster LA would have no chance to overcome.

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