Packaging that is perforated for easy opening that doesn’t work at all
This is easily my biggest pet peeve and usually happens multiple times a week and can really tick me off: when packaging, generally for food, is clearly perforated or designed to open a certain way and when you try to use it, it doesn’t work at all.
Examples:
- just before this I tried to open a plastic package of spinach with a “resealable” film lid that 90% of the time just completely shreds when I open it, rendering it useless for resealing
- cardboard boxes of candy with a thumb hole on the side that never seem to actually work
- plastic freezer bags with a ziploc that just tear straight through it
It’s a fairly simple thing but it can send me to rage very quickly when I try to open something and it totally destroys the package and its ability to be closed back up. If you’re going to design and engineer a product for easy opening and resealing, it should work at least 90% of the time