Bunnie wrote about a similar example from today: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4364 https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4364 At this point, it seems

Bunnie wrote about a similar example from today: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4364 https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4364 At this point, it seems blindingly obvious to me that all zippers should have this tiny tab, but the zipper’s designer wouldn’t have it. Even though the tab is very small, a user can feel the subtle bumps, and it’s perceived as a defect in the design. As a result, the designer insists upon a perfectly smooth tab which accordingly has no feature to easily and reliably allow for automatic orientation. I’d like to imagine that most people, after watching a person join pullers to sliders for a couple minutes, will be quite alright to suffer the tiny bump on the tip of their zipper to save another human the fate of having to manually align pullers into sliders for 8 hours a day. Because of the extra labor involved in putting these together, the zippers cost more; therefore they tend to end up in high-end products. This further enforces the notion that really smooth zippers with no tiny tab on them must be the result of quality control and attention to detail.