The not easy suit
It’s so typical for usability professionals to point out the un-usability of everyday things they encounter, and I normally try to resist, but I just have to comment on the Bonds EasySuit.
You’ll no doubt have seen the ads on TV, cute lil buggers wearing stretchy one-piece numbers. They look good and feel good—no seams or buttons—but damned if they are decidedly not easy to put on!
It looks like it’s easy enough, you just open the hole on the lower back and slip it on. Yeah, good luck. You need to bend baby in half and then simultaneously insert arms and legs into the corresponding holes and somehow they’re supposed to spring back into shape, fully clothed.
Grace gives me a slightly perplexed look and emits a short ‘humpf’ as I bend her in half like a pretzel. The look on her face seems to say “you sure you know how to do this?”.
What’s needed is a suit fitting system like in Iron Man :)
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Patrick Kennedy is a user experience strategist and design researcher based in Sydney Australia. He leads research activities that improve the user experience of cross-channel products and services; helping both designers and business decision makers in bringing those products and services to fruition. Read more.
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Ha.. yes, that takes me back. The older style suits (with buttons on the inside leg) weren’t much easier. I think the designers must have noticed how bendy babies’ limbs are & then designed with that in mind!
hear hear! indeed.
friends of mine shipped some of these over to London for us and I was very excited to see what could be even easier than the wondersuit… as you say – it’s not easy at all!
pretty darn cute when it’s on tho’. Sadly, we’ve grown out of all of ours now!
(now explain to my why I constantly write/speak in first person plural these days…)
I find it ok its not easy but not hard either, babies are flexable and once you get used to stretching the first time it is easy. I do not like studs or buttons on the back of suits as My babies back gets marks. I quite like the easy suit as it is very cute, I find most things hard to get on a squerming baby so it does not bother me too much.
I guess I need more practice :)
The trick here is to buy a size up…that way you don’t have to fold your child in half. Like the Bonds wondersuits, the easy suits also seem to be a small make.
That’s Jen’s 283th top trick for dressing babies :)
Bianca – I’m with you on press stud and buttons at the back…in fact press studs and buttons at 3am – Not good at all. I usually do them up wonky – I blame the small amount of light I have to work with (and the fact that my eyes are mostly shut).
i have to say that i took the bait and caved in. i bought it coz it looked easy as per the commercials. but man, my girl gives me the same look topped with a lot of crying as well. managed to use it once just for the sake of saying that yes, we tried.
No not an ‘easysuit’ rather the ‘not so easysuit’!!! The one I bought my daughter went to waste as it was way to small for a 000. I got given a 00 and that fits her (even though she is still in 0000/000) but still it’s a struggle. However yes she does look cute and it is comfy!! Still I feel ripped off!!
lol you dont need to bedn baby in half you need to follow instructions, i love the easysuits they make nighttime nappy changes so much easier and i like knowing that there isn’t a draft going through hols in the legs.. you put the top half on first like a tee shirt then stretch the legs over, without needing to bend baby.. you pull the material not the baby! :)
hmmm ok I’ll have to give it a try with the next kid, the first one is too big for the easysuits now :)
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