Pet peeve that I can't comprehend how it happens: sinks with faucets that barely extend out over the bowl, resulting in you knocking your hands against the edges of the bowl while trying to get them under the stream of water.
I encounter this in houses, public restrooms, and even fancy hotels. Are bathroom designers really this lacking in foresight?
I think about this too frequently.
The only place where I've found bathroom/home design that is done with consideration for the user is Japan
Maybe yer hands are just too big.
Often professional designers are not really involved- people think its an easyjob and end up with...that. Can also be the counter top installer.
It’s the worst. I blame Fiat architecture. Contractor swaps out designers faucets all the time to save costs.
One is $300 and other is $100. People see the same faucet. 
There must be an explanation. I asked Claude Sonnet and the most valuable contribution was:
"Older plumbing systems and traditional designs featured shorter spouts because water pressure was lower. Many modern designs still follow these traditional aesthetics without considering functionality."
Ha, I completely agree! and in the home case, you end up getting water all over the counter top. I may or may have not measured and remeasured faucet dimensions before ordering one when I redid my bathroom… (and then stared at the granite guy when he cut the hole double checking his measurements…)
Some men just want to see the world burn.
Also, “water saving” faucets and showers that dribble out water slowly, so you have to sit there rinsing for 5x as long, which balances out the total water used, and leaves you poorly rinsed.
They put them in the night club I worked in over 2 decades ago.
It was so people couldn't refill their $2.50 bottles of water & had to buy a new one.
Let’s talk about how bad those Dyson hand dryers integrated into the sink are. You go to get soap thinking it’s a soap dispenser and then get blasted with air that sprays the water in the sink all over you. Insane lack of foresight
How about the Dyson ones that are beside the sink but you have to stick your fucking hands in and hope you don’t drag your hand along the sides on the way out. Dyson is fucking trash.
Yes dude it’s like playing a game of operation IRL every time. Convinced the sides of those dryers have Ebola. Touch em and you gotta wash your hands again. Insanely bad design
Sorry man, I found it quite insightful. Better than walking across the room with wet hands, blowing water all over the wall and floor, which makes the floor slippery. You’ll get used to the graphics of which to pass your hands under when.
It is weird. It seems that so often I find very short low faucets on wide, flat sinks, which makes it almost impossible to rinse out the sink (like when you spit toothpaste into the sink). On the other hand, I see faucets that stick way out put on sinks that are shallow front-to-back, so you can't hardly get your hands under the faucet and over the sink. If you swap the two faucets on the different style of sink, it works so much better. I don't know if most people do it wrong, or I only notice when they do it wrong.
Agreed. Terrible design.
