Sunday, January 17, 2016

Bug List

  1. UF's lack of parking
    • UF is an unplanned-campus that continues to grow, without much space to grow. More students are being accepted than the school was originally built for, and this will only continue One solution could be where parking lots already exist, parking garages could be built within the same space. By building up where the land already exists, were adding space and spots that currently aren't being utilized.
  2. Excessive amount of tickets written in Gainesville (primarily UF)
    • Many parking spots I find aren't very well labeled, even when you go searching for a sign for an area you think you're allowed to park, a sign might not exist or not properly illustrate the area it is referring to. A solution for this bug could be writing signs to more clearly to describe the spaces the rule applies for.
  3. Living on the second story of a house or building with no elevator creates a difficulty with bringing laundry downstairs to clean, luggage downstairs to pack your car, a large amount of groceries upstairs, and other difficult activities related to these.
    • A levy system or shoot or anything alone this idea could be an easy fix.
  4. Styrofoam issues
    • I try to be as "green" as I can in my day-to-day life. However, the sorority house I live in only buys styrofoam cups, as opposed to paper, which are awful for the environment. And even when I am staying home and just want some tea, the glass mugs that are supplied are so tiny that you can barley fit even just a single cup of water in it. This could be easily fixed by buying larger reusable mugs, or even paper cups.
  5. Mattress sheet always being pulled off the mattress
    • I love the feeling after cleaning my sheets and making a nice, clean bed. However, I hate that within a days time, my mattress sheet is already being pulled off, especially since I have a bunk bed and it's hard to reach the inside corners, so it's annoying to have to struggle to do this often. I think the primary issue for this problem is a combination of weak elastic around the perimeter of the sheet, as well as too-exact measures for the mattress. If the fabric of the sheet was extended a couple inches in each direction, it could reach further under the mattress to become a sturdier fit.
  6. Luggage not arriving at airports
    • The airport tells you to ensure the arrival of your luggage, be sure to get to the airport and check your luggage two hours prior to your departure time, but still your luggage is commonly lost. And even when your luggage doesn't arrive, the airport often cannot track where it is or how long it will take to arrive. I believe the root cause of this issue is that the luggage isn't put in the plane immediately after being checked and secured. 
  7. Insulated water bottles
    • I love insulated water bottles because I hate getting books or my computer wet from the condensation on the outside of my bottle. However, I can't ever find the huge 1 liter bottles that are insulated, but I prefer bigger bottles to make sure I always have enough water to keep me hydrated on busy days. A solution to this could be insulated water bottles with filters in them so I can refill as much as I please, or even just insulating the bigger water bottles.
  8. Drinking too much on airplane
    • This can be very common on airplanes and very disrupting to all the passengers. An easy solution would be to place a drink cap on the amount of alcoholic drinks each person can purchase.
  9. Recliner on airplane seats go too far back
    • Too often your "large amount" of leg space quickly disappears due to the flyer in front of you reclining their chair all the way back. The best solution for this would be to only have recliners that go so far back that wouldn't greatly impede on those behind the seat.
  10. Menus don't put up prices online
    • I hate when I'm trying to decide on a restaurant to go to and research the restaurant to see what food they have and how expensive it is, but the prices are never listed online. As a college student on a budget, this can be extremely frustrating as the price of a restaurant can make or break your plans to eat there. I know there are websites that label how expensive restaurants are, but use symbols such as "$" and "$$$" to illustrate how pricey the meals are, this doesn't give enough information as to what that website considers expensive and not expensive, as these definitions aren't universal because different people think of different prices as "expensive." 
  11. Lack of bunk bed night stand
    • With a bunk bed, it's hard to have a night stand, especially in the set-up of dorm rooms as the ends of the bed can be used as ladders for the top bunk. Without the options of the front, sides, or back of the bed to set a table, it can be annoying to find places to sit your drink or phone, or even an alarm clock. There are hanging tables that can hang from your bed, but they're made for framed beds to slide on top of the framing of the bed. A hanging table that was magnetic could stick to the metal of the springs of the bed under the mattress.
  12. UF wifi is very unpredictable and weak
    • Students that live on campus depend on this wifi as their primary source of internet to do school work. With such unpredictable wifi, to can be frustrating to try to finish homework and loose the wifi or have very slow wifi. As college students, we work at a fast pace because we have so much to complete, and this irregular wifi can really slow us down and affect our grades. The root of the problem is that there aren't enough wifi routers, because the farther you get from the router, the worse the wifi, so if there were more around the schools, the wifi would be stronger. 
  13. ProctorU
    • With ProctorU gaining popularity among teachers, many students are running into the problem that college living usually requires a roommate. It's very inconvenient and stressful for students to have to plan with their roommate an appropriate time to kick them out to complete their exam. A quick-fix for this problem could be that the proctors should be proctoring the student isn't talking to their roommate. If the roommate is just sitting in the background, minding their own business, the proctor should be able to ensure they are not helping the student cheat.
  14. Headphones being plugged in
    • I always get nervous when I plug-in headphones to watch a video and I'm not sure if the headphones are plugged in, the last thing I want is for my phone to blast a sound in a very quiet room because I thought my headphones were plugged in all the way. An easy solution to this could be to have a quick image pop-up on the screen to indicate the headphones are plugged in, similar to the image that appears to show you turning the volume up or down on a Mac.
  15. Not knowing when my toothbrush is old and needs to be thrown out
    • A quick solution for this could be color-changing bristles that as the color slowly changes to a different color, you would know it was getting closer to the time to throw your toothbrush out.
  16. Key pad house keys
    • Many houses are turning over there metal keys for electric key pads that you simply enter a code in the key pad and the door unlocks. An issue with this system is when the electricity turns off unexpectedly. An easy fix for this would be to set these key pads to battery or solar operated to ensure you're never locked out of your house.
  17. When people don't know what they want by the time they get to the cash register
    • It can be very annoying for customers, and even cashiers, when a customer has waited in line, gets to the register to order, and still doesn't know what to order. This really slows the line down. A good solution to this could be to have a menu written outside the door so the customer can decide what they want before they come in, or maybe have a wait queue at the end of the line, right before you reach the register, in which people who haven't decided can wait and still decide what they want without loosing their place. This way, as soon as they have decided, they've already waited in line and are next to order, while still letting the people that are ready to order go through.
  18. Long lines and people that complain about the wait
    • The main issue here is that we live in a society of impatient people that don't always realize how long something can take. While you can't change people, by adding an electric sign outside the door that would state how long the wait is to order and get your meal/drink/etc. many impatient customers that don't have the time can decide for themselves if it's worth the wait.
  19. Website confusion
    • There are so many different websites for UF students to keep up with. A solution for this problem would be compacting all of these different sites to one informative website, as opposed to five.
  20. Waiting for shower to warm up
    • Many people in waiting for their shower water to warm up, loose track of time and let water go to waste that was warm. A solution to this could a timer on the outside of the shower to indicate when it's warmed up.
Reflection
I did find this brainstorming rather difficult as many of the "bugs" I thought of already had solutions to them, they just aren't widely known or used. I also realized that I think of bugs all day long throughout my week, but when it comes time to thinking of them and writing them down, I was drawing a blank.

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  2. Maxine, I love how long and meticulous your bug list was! Mine was similar. For me, it was easy for me to come up with my list, but I completely could easily add 7 of your bugs to my list. I can tell you probably live in a dorm on campus and have had the experience of using online classes with Proctor U. One thing I 100% understand you on is the mattress sheet. I love clean mattress sheets but cleaning and putting the sheets back, is such a pain. And last but not least, 14!!! That is my number one fear at the library. I can relate about thinking of things that bug me throughout the week. You should check out my blog too, it's pretty funny. Here is the link:
    http://kmglickman.blogspot.com/2016/01/bug-list.html

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