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

Bajaj back kick

Bajaj Scooter needs to be tilted before starting.

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Bad Designs | No comments

Plastic moulded chairs

The plastic molded chairs are light weight and made of brittle material. With heavy load they tend to split at the bottom.

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Bad Designs | No comments

Silencer Placement

Silencer of the a is badly placed as after some time it produces heat which is dangerous if someone happens to touch it unknowingly.

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Bad Designs | No comments

USB Drive and USB Insertion Port on CPU

By looking at a USB drive or even the USP insertion port on the CPU one cannot make out the way to insert into the port.

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Bad Designs | Four comments

Ventilator Pane Cleaning

Cleaning of ventilator panes is a very tedious job and becomes very difficult if one has to clean each and every component of it.

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Bad Designs | No comments

Power Adapters in Cell Phones-02

Most of the mobile phone chargers or power adapters come with two point pin that doesn’t always fit well into a normal switch board and as a result it keeps on hanging from it.

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Bad Designs | No comments

Usha Lexus Mixer Grinder Lid

One needs to open the lid at least 5-6 times, to grind something in this chutney jar!!

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Bad Designs | 38 comments

Lead Pencil

Lead pencil pen has poor lead holding mechanism as it does not utilize the last 25% of lead’s length.

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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.