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UMO - 2nd Boycott Bad Designs Contest'06

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.

Technology has become a way of life, but at the cost of ease of use. We come across so many products and systems at offices, banks, restaurants, theaters, reservation counters, transport stations and for that matter even in our homes. Most of them are pleasing to look at and offer great features but are rarely of any use. The common experience that has been observed amongst the users of these new age products and services is frustration leading to annoyance.

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'06 Winners

The following ten entries were chosen as the best submissions for the "Boycott Bad-Design Contest'06"

Photo Flash : Shashank Shekhar
Designer Windows : Henrik Olsen
Flip Phone : Komal Mangu
CD ROM in Laptops : Bhanu Prakash
Stamp Pads : Saurabh Malhotra
Laptop Key Board : Sudhir Bhosale
Bike Choke in Hero Honda : Yogish L Shettigar
Railway Platforms : Vijay Saradhi
Coupon Validating Machine : Apurva Patel
USB Drive & CPU : Srikar

Details about the entries chosen for the exibition for World Usability Day'06 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'06 Entries Preview

Ear Phones storage

Ear phones are the ones which satisfy your needs without causing disturbance to others.

2006 - 11.08.

Category: Boycott Bad Design 06 | One comment

Mixer type Shower Taps

The idea of getting hot and cold water from the respective taps hold good only when the geyser is on.

Considering that the geyser is not essentially in the bathroom (or the geyser light of malfunctioning when on), the user gets no evidence if the hot water tap would actually run hot water or not as there isn’t any indication or assistance in the form of visual clue. Read More

2006 - 11.08.

Category: Boycott Bad Design 06 | One comment

A perfect trash can

text needs to be updated

2006 - 11.08.

Category: Boycott Bad Design 06 | No comments

Remote Controls

It is surprising to know that even the smallest piece given along with a T.V. set has to be designed with utmost care.

2006 - 11.08.

Category: Boycott Bad Design 06 | No comments

Bike Choke in Hero Honda

The choke of the bike is useful to start the vehicle in a cold weather.

2006 - 11.08.

Category: Boycott Bad Design 06 | No comments

Seats of 'Long route-Bus

A COMMON hand-rest in the center, for a set of 2 seats in travel buses is a common scene.

2006 - 11.08.

Category: Boycott Bad Design 06 | Four comments

New Ladies Jeans Design

Jeans is in vogue with each and every girl out there.

2006 - 11.08.

Category: Boycott Bad Design 06 | Two comments

Water Jar

A drinking jar is provided with a slot so as to pour the water without it falling all around.

2006 - 11.08.

Category: Boycott Bad Design 06 | No comments

"World Usability Day" is an Earth Day style event held on 14 November 2006, focused on raising awareness and visibility of usability engineering and user centered design. UsabilityMatters.Org is the local event coordinator for the World Usability Day-2006, Hyderabad, India event.

UsabilityMatters.Org has organized a 9 day exhibition and a host of activities on November 14, 2006, for the World Usability Day-2006 in Hyderabad, India.

The exhibition and the conference was well attended by over 200 people from usability community, students, and professionals from Design related domains from Hyderabad.