The design of the carafe is fine, but the lid design isn't.

Not only is the build quality similar to that of a fisher-price toy, the design is incredibly poor.

Water puddles under the machine, bad design

Horrible design, it's really hard to pour all the water in to make coffee in the pot.

I think the design is not good.

Poor design choices make this a frustrating appliance

Bad design:

Great idea Cuisinart, but the design is terrible

Now the single side server is another poor design

It's just a poor design and i hate supporting people that think very well.

Must be a poor design

I still like the design, but still wish it came with a thermal carafe

This part is very well designed

The glass carafe pour spout is designed well to help avoid spilling

Minor design flaw, but doesn't really affect anythijg.

Maybe a design flaw

(it’s a good cup of coffee and fairly easy to operate once the confusion goes away) but I find myself more annoyed by its lazy design.

Sadly, it has the same flaws, which I now attribute to bad design

The design lacks adequate separation between the coffee and hot water units.

It looked to have everything someone would need, single cup and carafe capacity, nice features, good clean design.

However it is very poorly designed

Very poor design.

Cuisinart is usually good quality, this design has major flaws.

Pros: Makes great tasting coffee, compact design for a dual

The stainless and black design is striking but most importantly it makes the best cup of coffee I’ve ever had at home

Why Cuisinart designed this feature as it did was is a mystery to me.

A better design would have been for the lid to be lifted to the left of the reservoir rather than to the rear

The design where you pour in the water for the coffee pot is not easy to pour into, also the carafe holds a little of the water in it

I have no idea if this product is good or not as I have never been able to use it since the carafe crashed to the ground from poor manufacturer packaging design.

The pot has a lid that doesn't have a hinge it snaps on and off again because of the poor design you can't have a hinged lid or it would make it even harder to fill

The stainless and black design is striking but most importantly it makes the best cup of coffee I’ve ever had at home

I was really excited about it, thinking they had really done a masterful job designing this combination machine.

Design isn't as big as an issue as other reviews have mentioned

It is well designed and sturdy.

Some say third time is a charm............i'm not going to bother trying as the Cuisinart SS-15 is poorly designed and lacks quality typically associated with the brand.

The first thing we noticed after set-up was that the design of the water receptacle on the carafe side was really difficult to get the water into the water hole.

makes great coffee but with that said very poor design.

I was hesitant because of some of the reviews but ordered anyway as I

coffee you can not buy other brands i like to be able to choose what i like and be forced to buy their brand only plus this Cuisinart now give me the chose if i want fresh brewed coffee instead of a single cup which is really not as strong as i like it