UMO - 4th Boycott Bad Designs Contest'08

Transportation turns all our journey plans into reality. We plan most of our travel needs, albeit some are incidental, some are opportunity based and some are totally out of the blue and immediate. Whatever may be the nature and need of travel, it requires us to plan, check availability, budget our properties/options of travel..

As passionate travelers we always plan well in advance for all needs of transpiration, be it daily transportation to work/school; weekly transportation to country side, inter/intra city recreation/social gatherings; monthly transportation to cross state/country events, business meetings or a holiday; annual travel to in country, overseas or space travel. We also plan almost instantaneously for incidental/accidental sudden transportation needs to attend urgencies..

Despite of all this we cannot account for uncertainties raised by faulty systems, badly designed products and services. What we can certainly account for or bring to light is all those information systems, products and services which are badly designed.

The objective of this competition was to identify most badly designed product or a system or a service that we use in our day-to-day lives, get annoyed with and eventually ignore.

Boycott Bad-Design Contest'08 Winners

The following ten entries were chosen as the best submissions for the "Boycott Bad-Design Contest'08"

Special Award (from maximum number of votes online)

Details about the entries chosen for the exibition for World Usability Day'08 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'08 Entries Preview

Design is in details. If small details like the locking system of a sliding camera cover are considered insignificant, it could lead to bigger problems like quick draining of the battery.
Bad Designs
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2008 - 11.30.
The problem area is the departure time is mentioned in 24 hour format. So if the train is at 12:25 mid-night on 5th October, the time on the ticket is 00:25 dated 6th Oct. Many people have missed trains because of this reason. Even, adding am/pm doesn't help solve the confusion much.
Bad Designs
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2008 - 11.30.
The Zune player is provided with a bigger screen and is attracting many a buyer.
Bad Designs
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2008 - 11.30.
This is a common scene all over the country. The children are packed into auto rickshaws which is very dangerous as they are most prone to accidents .
Bad Designs
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2008 - 11.30.
The footrest in a cycle rickshaw is at a level where it is difficult for the passenger to climb over.
Bad Designs
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2008 - 11.30.
In buses the handbag luggage is generally kept above the seats which is quite dangerous in case of movement as there is no barrier provided.
Bad Designs
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2008 - 11.30.
The foot over bridges in the railway stations are very difficult to use.
Bad Designs
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2008 - 11.30.
Design for the physically challenged should make it easier for them rather than being an extra strain ;keeping in mind their limitations.
Bad Designs
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2008 - 11.30.

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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.