Bruce Tognazzini has posted a list of his top ten most persistent design bugs in personal computing.
Welcome to the Over the Hill Gang, design bugs that have been around so long that we’ve begun to think of them as folk heros. However, the usual requirement for turning a public enemy into a folk hero is death, not longevity, and so it should be for these worthies: Their executions are long overdue.
These bugs aren’t necessarily fatal. The are all at minimum highly irritating, and they have all survived for a minimum of five years or five product release cycles, whichever came first.
Why don’t we start our own list of persistent and annoying design flaws in mobile devices! Click “Discuss This Story” to list your favorite most-annoying design flaws.
Originally published on Pocketnow on November 30, 2004. More Thought articles from the Pocketnow archive.