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

Clogging of Kitchen-sink

After the dish-washing the kitchen sink gets choked.

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2005 - 11.13.

Category: Boycott Bad Design 05 | Three comments

Foot-rest of Honda Activa

Every time one has to open the foot rest by hand, the position of this element is such that it just cannot be opened by foot.

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Boycott Bad Design 05 | Three comments

Ketchup bottle

Ketchup being viscous in nature, it is difficult to pour it from a glass bottle.

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Boycott Bad Design 05 | Two comments

Shampoo Sachet

Shampoo sachets cannot be easily opened with wet hands.

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Boycott Bad Design 05 | Five comments

Train Berths of a 3 Tier Bogie

The berths of a 3 tier bogie don’t provide enough head space. When someone is sleeping on the middle berth, people on middle as well as lower berths can no even sit due to less head space.

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Boycott Bad Design 05 | Eight comments

Styrofoam Cups

While using a Styrofoam cup one does not have any clue of the temperature of the liquid contained inside it.

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Boycott Bad Design 05 | Three comments

Taps, Flush and Toilet Doors in Public Places

In Indian scenario, most of the people prefer to use water in toilets. But in public toilets, in toilets at railway stations or at the bus stations it is unhygienic to use flush, mugs or even the soap bar with hands.

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Boycott Bad Design 05 | No comments

Toilet pan

The level of water in the commode is such that with every chunk of stool that falls in water has to spill and splash on person using the commode.

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Boycott Bad Design 05 | No comments

Chips Pack

Many branded potato chips sold in pillow pouches cause problem because opening those packet requires considerable amount of pinch grip strength.

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Boycott Bad Design 05 | No comments

Oil Containers - Pouches and Bottles

The medium sized (1 liter) liquid filled pouches like milk pouches; edible oil pouches etc. used in homes have many issues of handling. Same is the case with oil bottles.

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Boycott Bad Design 05 | Four comments

Fevikwik Tube Outlet

The outlet of a small Fevikwik tube is hard to re-open as it easily gets stuck due to strong adhesive.

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Boycott Bad Design 05 | Eight comments

Honda Dio

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.

Category: Boycott Bad Design 05 | No comments

Bajaj back kick

Bajaj Scooter needs to be tilted before starting.

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Boycott Bad Design 05 | One comment

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: Boycott Bad Design 05 | 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: Boycott Bad Design 05 | 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.