UMO - 5th Boycott Bad Design Contest'09

How many times a day you've felt some things could just be "slightly" better than they are now?

It may be your wash-basin tap, that tries hard to impersonate gym equipment by being hard and clumsy when you are all sleepy in morning, or it could be your phone bill that poses more intellectual challenge than toughest of the cryptic-crosswords.

We live in a world that is a consequence of conscious or unconscious design decisions made by the manufacturers or designers of the various systems. Most of times these decisions are resultant of hasty time-lines, compromise on quality or just plain ignorance about 'you'- the one who is going to use them.

The UMO-Boycott Bad-Design Contest'09 was organized with the view of calling attention to the bad design in everyday things with the theme : So tweet earth - rethink, refresh and recycle ideas for a sustainable world.

Boycott Bad-Design Contest'09 Winners

The following ten entries were chosen as the best submissions ( Rs. 3000/- each ) for the "Boycott Bad-Design Contest'09"

Team-UMO duly acknowledges it's gratitude towards all the participants.

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'ek chidiya, anek chidiyaN; dana chugne baith gayee thi .....' The song conjures up childhood imagery, memories of an entire generation that was still lucky to learn the lessons of life from Mother Nature. For all others who couldn't strike a chord yet, 'ek chidiya, anek chidiyaN' translates to 'a lovely bird and many such lovely birds....'. Those are the opening lines of a beautifully animated song that encouraged harmony and unity in diversity, the mottos that best describe India, through a delightful cameo from Nature.

Most of us used to take delight in watching birds paying us a visit in our very own habitats during our childhood, when today’s cities were still attractive enough for nature to cast its beautiful spell with changing seasons, colors, flowers and more. However, all such pleasures of nature are strangers to our cities now. It’s something that we have done ourselves, still doing, depriving our younger generations of all such pleasure.

The greater irony is, we seek solace in the virtual worlds. Our bird song comes from MP3s, our greenery in screensavers. And tweet on the web mimicking nature. As we use these products, as we live a synthetic life, we need to think, rethink how our life is affecting our world, our Nature. As creative people, it’s time we thought about how our creations, the products and services we create and we use impact our world.

Boycott Bad-Design Contest'09 Entries Preview

Now-a-days bomb attacks are happened by using the cell phones. so cell phones make possibles to connect with the bomb.

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2011 - 01.22.

Olden days mostly floppy disks are used for storing purpose.Due to lack of storage memory the floppy disks are exhausted. so if there is an increase in the storage memory very useful and secure to maintain the backup of the data.

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2011 - 01.22.

Now-a-days backup of data is important so mostly people use cd's & dvd's for storing purposes.If any scraches or cracks may happen it may lead to the distruction of data in the cd's and sometimes it mayn't run.

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2011 - 01.22.

Child safety locks are build into the rear doors of most cars to prevent rear seat passengers from opening the door, the idea is that, when the lock is set you cant open the door from inside until and unless the driver should open it from the outside of the car.

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2011 - 01.22.

The Front loading Washing Machines may have greatest advantage, may well be it’s energy efficiency, but it also suffers from many cons & disadvantages:
1. Bending so far over to add & remove laundry can be an issue for many.
2. Adding to a laundry load is not as simple with a front loader washer. In order to add forgotten laundry, the machine must first be stopped. If the tub has already started to fill, it will have to drain before the front loading door will be open.
3. Parents who have small children need to be on a high alert, because kids love to find small places to hide & the front load design of these tubs seem like the perfect Club house for them.

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2011 - 01.22.

First of all this a very poor quality product which leads to hazards like electric shocks and short circuits. Even if the quality part is put aside this is not a very good design of an electric socket because it does not support all kinds of plugs (European and the American).

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2011 - 01.22.

When a newspaper is read it is always unfolded and after it is done so it becomes very clumsy to handle the whole newspaper. It’s not a big problem for those who are at home but for those who work or who travel a lot it becomes a big mess to carry and occasionally unfold the whole newspaper in the public and start reading it.

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2011 - 01.22.

A bus similar to the one that is shown is not a good means of transport on narrow streets. Due to their wide floor area they occupy most of the space on the streets and leave barely any room for other cars to pass. This causes traffic jam, slow traffic speed and total commotion.

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2011 - 01.22.