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In the spirit of the OP I'll try to keep this to things which might actually have a design solution...
People insisting on using the luggage gates at the station when they don't have any luggage/a bike/a wheelchair.
"Changing villages" at swimming pools. Not just because the phrase itself is an abomination but because they're always horrible to use.
Those stupid ridged things they put in cycle paths where the ridges align with the direction of the path instead of going across it - they can get very slippy.
Noise transmission in Victorian flat conversions.
The fact it's impossible to get a drink of water on the move in the UK without resorting to plastic bottles (and basically what @pastry_bot said, the much wider issue). Not sure there's a design solution to this though because water fountains already exist, there just seems to be a national conspiracy to support the bottled water industry. I have noticed that water fountains are much more common in the U.S.