UMO - Boycott Bad Designs Contest'05

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'05 was organized with the view of calling attention to the bad design in everyday things with the theme : Annoyances with day-to-day things.

Boycott Bad-Design Contest'05 Winners

The following ten entries were chosen as the best submissions for the "Bad design contest"

Details about the above and also the other entries chosen for the exibition for World Usability Day at Hyderabad are displayed below.You can see the details of each entry, vote for it and add your comments to it.

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

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Boycott Bad-Design Contest'05 Entries Preview

Styrofoam Cups

While using a Styrofoam cup one does not have any clue of the temperature of the liquid contained inside it.

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Bad Designs | Three comments

Tip of Adhesive Tape for Tearing

Adhesive tape rolls tends to stick back on the roll after use, if not mounted on a tape dispenser properly. Each time one has to search its end.

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Bad Designs | Ten comments

Taps, Flush and Toilet Doors in Public Places

In Indian scenario, most of the people prefer to use water in toilets. But in public toilets, in toilets at railway stations or at the bus stations it is unhygienic to use flush, mugs or even the soap bar with hands.

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Bad Designs | No comments

Toilet pan

The level of water in the commode is such that with every chunk of stool that falls in water has to spill and splash on person using the commode.

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Bad Designs | No comments

Chips Pack

Many branded potato chips sold in pillow pouches cause problem because opening those packet requires considerable amount of pinch grip strength.

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Bad Designs | No comments

Oil Containers - Pouches and Bottles

The medium sized (1 liter) liquid filled pouches like milk pouches; edible oil pouches etc. used in homes have many issues of handling. Same is the case with oil bottles.

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Bad Designs | Two comments

Fevikwik Tube Outlet

The outlet of a small Fevikwik tube is hard to re-open as it easily gets stuck due to strong adhesive.

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Bad Designs | Seven comments

Honda Dio

While pillion gets off the seat, be it a Saree or pant, it invariably gets struck in he side protrusion of the stand being.

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Bad Designs | No comments

WUD Home

World Usability Day was observed across the globe spanning 70 locations in 30 nations where organizations and practitioners engaged in a campaign to create awareness of usability of products and services that we consume on a day-to-day basis. The theme for this event was "Making it Easy".

Usability Matters Organization[UMO] organized this event at hyderabad, on 3rd November,2005 at ISB auditorium. This was among the significant WUD gathering in India. UMO organized a Boycott Bad Design Contest, an International Cortoon contest, and a full day event culminating in World Usability Day.

UMO members who are practitioners of usability from the domain of manufacturing, services, architecture, fashion design and software attended the event and eminent speakers from academicia as well as industry spoke on this occassion.. The hyderabad event centered around the theme ‘Good Design for Better Living’.

See the full event report for details.