Bad UX Isn't Just For Websites

Whoever designed the wheels on my wife’s Jeep should be drawn and quartered. Seriously — why on earth would you put the valve stems inside a recessed cavity that human hands can’t reach?

It’s the coldest day of the year (so far). Temperatures drop, tire pressure drops... not rocket surgery over here. So there I am, freezing my schmeckels off, trying to attach the tire inflator, and suddenly I realize I need precision surgical instruments just to remove a valve cap. A valve cap! The one part of a car that literally every human has to touch at some point.

If EVER there was something that SHOULD be easy and user-friendly, it’s the valve cap on your car tires.

But, NOOOO.

Some design “genius” apparently decided that form should triumph over function, and I'm out there with tweezers and a jeweler's loop just to put air in a tire.

As a web guy, I thought this kind of crap was limited to websites. You know, buttons that aren’t buttons, inputs masquerading as divs, dropdowns you need a blood sacrifice to open. But here we are.

Turns out bad UX isn’t just for websites after all.