Two things, in rapid succession, irritated me this morning, and they both had to do with a simple design decision that could have made the difference between delighting a customer, and causing, well, irritation.
Dear Thermal Coffee Cup Designers. If you're too fucking cheap, or "cutting costs", or whatever, to use a tenth-of-a-cent blob of sealant on your trendy little coffee cups, making them "non-dishwasher-safe", then for fuck's sake make the interior large enough for an adult human hand to be able to get in there and scrape off the old coffee residue!
Sincerely yours, disgruntled coffee drinker
and
Dear Dishwasher Designers. If you're going to go to the trouble to put a "cleaning cycle completed" indicator on your high end dishwashers, then, hello. Make it fucking visible, not some pin-sized dot. Further, if I open the door to remove a fork, then close the door again, turning off the indicator makes it about as useful as using a spaghetti strainer for a birth control device, you know what I'm saying?
love and kisses, curmudgeonly home owner
The coffee mug idiocy is the reason we still have a bottle brush on the sink even though Lloyd stopped using bottles more than 2 1/2 years ago.
"about as useful as using a spaghetti strainer for a birth control device"
Handy Household Hint #276: Saran wrap and a rubber band works a hell of a lot better...
Just like you can read a mail and then mark it unread for later use, dishwashers need a turn-the-clean-light-back-on function, and while we're at it, how about an ESC key in the elevator in case you punch up the wrong floor and need to change your mind?