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Signs of Bad Design

Permanently fixed

A Sign of Bad Design that is also poetry. It deftly employs two meanings of “fixed”:

  • securely placed, immovable
  • repaired

The knob, having broken, is now fixed. The design solution, of course, is to remove the damn knob, but this is fun too.

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