The Bad-Designs Showcase

This is where you'll find the biggest collection of Bad Design examples from daily life!!!

The Bad Designs were collected over the years from the user submitted entries for the World Usability Day Contests under the name "Boycott Bad Designs".

The college chairs which are generally used, will have a writing pad on the right hand side of the chair, which causes the problem for the students who are left handers enabling them to use their own writing pads on the other side.

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2011 - 01.22.

Car Wipers

M.Prajwal Yashasvi, warangal

Conventional Car wipers just clean outer side of windows during rainy season and large amount of foam or mist in generated in inner view which creates lot of problem for drivers view.

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2011 - 01.22.

Hard Keypad for typing

M.Prajwal Yashasvi, warangal

Phone keypad is to hard to work on it for typing messages it takes long strain in this particular model.

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2011 - 01.22.

Holy Rivers

Govindu Anusha, Guntur

Holy River Ganges, polluted like a garbage dump yard. Affects tourism.

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2011 - 01.22.

The graphical interface  of the operating system windows and linux . There can be certain corrections like all the folders have same color and design .

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2011 - 01.22.

Bajaj pop-up toaster

Rachna Madhavan

This Bajaj pop-up toaster is not provided with an automatic time setter. hence when one puts the bread into the toaster he/she has to keep looking over it if the bread is properly burnt or not.

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2011 - 01.22.

Keypad Of Mobiles

Paulami, Delhi

The cell phone keys are too small and so we are often prone to mistyping.As a result, often, in a hurry we make spelling mistakes.

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2011 - 01.22.

Toilets in trains

Mujahid , Hyderabad

The Toilets in the trains are flushed directly on the tracks which cause a havoc to the passengers who are standing near the tracks or stations.

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2011 - 01.22.
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