1. There’s no way to make a TV
remote beep when you lose it in the couch (Bluetooth connected to TV or phone
for example).
2. There is no quick budget friendly
way for me to get from Miami to Gainesville other than driving.
3. Plastic water bottles aren’t biodegradable.
4. There’s no universal event
planning search engine where you can find different event planning services on
one platform. This makes planning events extremely tedious and time consuming.
5. The sensor to open the gate in
my community stops working when water gets on the sensor (so every time it rains).
6. Although UF has a surplus of
land, there is little to no parking on campus.
7. The Lays potato chip bag comes
with more air than chips creating an illusion of more product.
8. Yoplait yogurts have a concave
bottom creating an illusion of more product.
9. The door to my room is not soundproof
so that I can clearly hear conversations being had in the kitchen.
10. The top
row of kitchen cabinets is too high and impossible for me to reach without climbing
onto the kitchen counter, so I don’t use them.
11. There’s
no way to clean the sludge in kitchen sink without getting your hands dirty.
12. If I
rent a textbook, there’s no way to temporarily highlight it.
13. If I forget
my license, there’s no way to show a mobile ID.
14. Waiting
on hold, companies should let me hang up and have a customer service person
call me automatically when it’s my turn.
15. As soon
as I put my headphones in my backpack, they become tangled in numerous knots.
16. There's no way to open a bathroom door without touching the door knob that's full of bacteria
17. Extension chords are bulky and easy to trip over.
18. Tables at restaurants have no where to hang your purse.
19. There's a way to quickly heat food in minutes (microwave, barbecue) but there's no way to cool food in a matter of minutes.
20. My hamper has one opening so that I can't split my lights and darks until it comes time to do the wash.
I found making this list to be very challenging. It made me realize that I've learned to tolerate things that bother me every day. The first five items where easy for me to come up with but the other 15 where more challenging and caused me to become more aware and think more critically of my day to day life. This assignment has shown me that, although we live in an advanced society, there is always room for new products and better services.
Hey Ana,
ReplyDeleteI agree with everything you said. When I first started this assignment, I thought it would be a breeze until I got stuck around number ten. Usually, I get bothered by many things, but over time you realize that those things are not a big deal and tolerate it. I noticed that we have a couple of "bugs" in common. One that I can really relate to is the kitchen cabinets being too high because I am short. My solution was buying a stool to keep in the kitchen to use whenever I need it. I feel that this assignment was an eye-opener in showing us how important it is for new products and services to be innovated to solve our "bugs".
Hey Ana! Your bug list is great and very relatable to many college students. The fact that you pointed out that even though we live in an advanced society, there is still room for advanced products and services is very hard to argue to say the least. Hopefully by the end of this class we will posses this knowledge to potentially develop some new products and services that will benefit the rest of society.
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