Plugs...

It is part of our everyday life. We use them for most of the electronics used around your household.

The plastic housing of this standard three-prong plug is supposed to be chunky enough that we can just grab it with our fingers.


Or plugs like these have ridges and textures that are supposed to sync up with the grooves in our fingerprints, providing traction.


The standard American appliance plug has an additional lip we can grab.




Designer Kim Seung Woo's clever Universal Plug has a nice, obvious grab area. The idea won a Red Dot Design Concept Award 2008.