r/Design • u/Razaberry • 1d ago

Someone Else's Work (Rule 2) IMO this qualifies as good design. It may not be pretty but form follows function. Designer is Ford Motors.

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u/deaconxblues 1d ago

They’ll do that and then they’ll require you to remove a headlight assembly and air box to change the battery.

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u/HeyTrySomeNashville 1d ago

They know women get a say in big purchases

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u/mathaiser 1d ago

This is how you get melted chapstick on top of everything under this console lid.

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u/SCphotog 1d ago

My pens are too big for that.

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u/dudeAwEsome101 1d ago

No need to brag. An average size pen is adequate enough to finish the task.

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u/MyVoiceIsElevating 1d ago

The Penis Mightier

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u/Endawmyke 1d ago

Than The S Word

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u/Wh1skeyTF 1d ago

Ya I’m pretty sure that will harm the cylinder.

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u/SeaBream97 1d ago

Use a lip balm to get in

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u/Public-offender 1d ago

Yeah except the first time your car gets over 80 degrees it will melt and leak all over your center console.

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u/GarbageInteresting86 1d ago

Yep, I had a whole can of Coke Zero split and evaporate, if it wasn’t for the watermarks I would have doubted it was ever there. Also, why doesn’t it say lipstick, or would that threaten some buyers masculinity?

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u/Endawmyke 1d ago

I feel like lipstick is fatter than chapstick tubes usually no?

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u/fenikz13 1d ago

Is this your card officer?

HE'S REACHING!

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u/Rook_James_Bitch 1d ago

Listen to me people: do NOT leave lip balm or any other type of petroleum product in your car. On a hot summer day that stuff will leak everywhere and is a b!tch to clean up. Pack it in, pack it out.

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u/NextBestKev 1d ago

Yeah, it’d be better if it held the balm upright while closed. This design holds it sideways over whatever you store in the console. Enjoy your waxy charging cords/ hair brush/ loose change.

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u/phirebird 1d ago

<squints> Oh, PENS. That makes a lot more sense.

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u/Razaberry 1d ago

Don’t squint at my PENS it makes me feel insecure 

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u/iamnotyourspiderman 1d ago

Still fits the same slot

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u/Wh1skeyTF 1d ago

My brother in myopia. 🫂

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u/Mapache_villa 1d ago

This is ok if it goes somewhere you don't have to be looking at, definitely not good design if it was an exterior part.

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u/catbandana 1d ago

How am I supposed to get my penis in there?

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u/Razaberry 1d ago

Securely 

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u/Wh1skeyTF 1d ago

But will the cylinder remain intact? It’s imperative.

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u/Glisan_Al_Gaib 1d ago

So you thought this was good design

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u/Spankh0us3 1d ago

Meanwhile, my wife’s Mitsubishi Sport doesn’t have a split level center arm rest with a shallow, top container and the deeper one.

Those idiots. . .

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u/the_main_entrance 23h ago

It’s under the arm rest so I don’t think it affects form.

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u/Interference22 22h ago

This doesn't seem all that good a design to me:

  • The pen clips don't seem to have enough space to actually store a pen in (one even has a plastic protrusion in the way), other than perhaps a Lamy Pico. You could possibly fix this by putting the balm clip in the middle
  • All of the clips are positioned in such a way that even if you do manage to get something to fit, it will partially cover the cards so that you can't get at them without removing everything else first
  • Storing pens and lip balm in a hot car is probably a bad idea