This post is not about the green handle and sign All This Chittah Chattah said it very well here.
This photo is from there too.

I would like to draw your attention to something that is driving me crazy. You may have noticed this too.

I first saw this new way to conserve water in the Portland Airport a few couple years ago and I was really excited until I used it.

The way it works is, you the flusher choose the amount of water, power of the flush, swirl of the bowl you need, based on what you just put in it.  It’s great. Most of the time you only need enough flush power to push a little extra liquid and a bit of TP. Every 5th or so time (just a guess) you need flushing power to get a lot more down the pipes.

This is were the good idea meets bad design.

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Well, I’ll first say that I don’t know if Method actually performed contextual research around the product design of their baby + kids products, but one of their justifications for a recent packaging changes, smells very strongly of in store/ in home observations.

From the Method blog:

Q: Why the change?

A: Leaky Otters! We found that people were unable to resist taking the Otter’s pants off (no joke!) to get a big whiff of the what the product smelled like. This more often than not loosened the cap underneath the Otter which in turn sometimes created a big mess either on a shelf in the store or all over your bathroom floor at home.

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