The Bad-Designs Showcase

This is where you'll find the biggest collection of Bad Design examples from daily life!!!

The Bad Designs were collected over the years from the user submitted entries for the World Usability Day Contests under the name "Boycott Bad Designs".

Honda Dio

Satish Shastry, Bangalore

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.

Bajaj back kick

Usability team, Hyderabad

Bajaj Scooter needs to be tilted before starting.

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2005 - 11.02.

Plastic moulded chairs

Ravi Shankar B., IIIT, Hyderabad

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.

Silencer Placement

Sumiran Pandya, NID, Ahmedabad

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.

USB Drive and USB Insertion Port on CPU

Shauraya Rawat, IISc, Bangalore

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.

Ventilator Pane Cleaning

Shauraya Rawat,IISc,Banglore

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.

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.

Usha Lexus Mixer Grinder Lid

Yogish L. Shettigar, Hyderabad, India

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.
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