UMO - 6th Boycott Bad Design Contest'10

Communication is the new order of life on our planet. H2O, O2 and a skill set on our resumes is not enough anymore to survive in this ever growing complex ecosystem of life.

Mobile and social communication is a big buzz word and why not, after all we have over 300 million mobile subscribers.

Communication is one of the most basic and also the most complicated of human expressions. Depending on the context and situation, communication can address plethora of emotional needs and can make or break relations, career and business. Communication is the most powerful of all mediums. But unfortunately and inevitably we let developing technologies seize the control of our communication. Medium has become the messenger and message itself now.

Boycott Bad Design Contest'10 encourages participants to look at various means, modes, mediums, products and services of communication from the most latest micro blogging rage like Twitter on the Internet to the not so pre-historic mediums like newspapers, radio, television and telephone. All identified bad designs must be currently in use.

Boycott Bad-Design Contest'10 Winners

The following ten entries were chosen as the best submissions ( Rs. 3000/- each ) for the "Boycott Bad-Design Contest'10"

Jury Panel | Competition Details

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

Boycott Bad-Design Contest'10 Entries Preview

This is a picture of a house wherein an electric pole is situated in front of the house. On keen observation, it can be noticed that this pole is leaning towards the house.

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2011 - 01.21.

This picture depicts the college building where construction is taking place, for a lift, and there is no sign of "Beware!" to warn visitors and neophytes of the college.

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2011 - 01.21.

This a picture of a college near a classroom, where there is a huge beehive.

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2011 - 01.21.

Today, a desktop has so many peripheral components, that it has increased the amount of wires that dwell behind the system.

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2011 - 01.21.

This is a snapshot of a website that connects to a database for retrieval of information about protein-protein interaction networks of many organisms. The User Interface of this website is so confusing for theoretical computer scientists, having no background knowledge of biology, to search for the appropriate organism and retrieve the apt data of protien networks.

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2011 - 01.21.

This is a picture of how recklessly, a high tension wire is left near a coconut tree. If by any chance the tree gets burnt because of worn out insulation, or the wire gets cut, then it is a danger for the residents in the area, especially, during raining season.

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2011 - 01.21.

This a 4 USB hub. Since USB ports carry out serial transmission of information, this hub having 4 ports, can support only 1 USB device at any one time.

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2011 - 01.21.

This is UPS for a desktop. As you can observe, it does not have a provision to plug the rectangular pins of a hot swappable hard disk, etc.

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2011 - 01.21.