Tag: windows

Not blind people.  That’d be insensitive.

I mean the window coverings.

Blinds suck.  They do.  They are the jack of many trades, king of none.  Let’s break down what blinds are supposed to do.  Blinds are supposed to keep the sun out when you don’t want it and to let the sun in when you do.  They’re supposed to be able to be removed temporarily (putting them up).

Overall, though, blinds do a terrible job at all of this.  Most blinds can’t close completely when you want to keep the sun out – curtains do a far superior job.  Blinds have little holes along the side that always let the sun in, and usually has tiny slivers between the blinds that allow a striped pattern of annoying sunlight in.

Blinds also do a poor job of letting sunlight in.  If you don’t put them up completely, there will always be blinds in the way of the actual sunlight.  If you do put them up, you have to deal with a different wire that, well, doesn’t really work half the time.  Because, in some kind of total user experience failure, the wire both makes the blinds go up and down, as well as make it stop moving, depending on the angle.

And they break all the time.  Blinds get bent, wires get tangled, and the rotation rod sometimes falls off.  Any of these happening causes either the entire window of blinds or a large portion of it to be rendered useless.

How have we put a man on the moon but not come up with a better way to cover our windows?  Get on it, top scientists!