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'09 was organized with the view of calling attention to the bad design in everyday things with the theme : So tweet earth - rethink, refresh and recycle ideas for a sustainable world.
The following ten entries were chosen as the best submissions ( Rs. 3000/- each ) for the "Boycott Bad-Design Contest'09"
Team-UMO duly acknowledges it's gratitude towards all the participants.
'ek chidiya, anek chidiyaN; dana chugne baith gayee thi .....' The song conjures up childhood imagery, memories of an entire generation that was still lucky to learn the lessons of life from Mother Nature. For all others who couldn't strike a chord yet, 'ek chidiya, anek chidiyaN' translates to 'a lovely bird and many such lovely birds....'. Those are the opening lines of a beautifully animated song that encouraged harmony and unity in diversity, the mottos that best describe India, through a delightful cameo from Nature.
Most of us used to take delight in watching birds paying us a visit in our very own habitats during our childhood, when todays cities were still attractive enough for nature to cast its beautiful spell with changing seasons, colors, flowers and more. However, all such pleasures of nature are strangers to our cities now. Its something that we have done ourselves, still doing, depriving our younger generations of all such pleasure.
The greater irony is, we seek solace in the virtual worlds. Our bird song comes from MP3s, our greenery in screensavers. And tweet on the web mimicking nature. As we use these products, as we live a synthetic life, we need to think, rethink how our life is affecting our world, our Nature. As creative people, its time we thought about how our creations, the products and services we create and we use impact our world.
The 3G mobiles which are available in the market are bad designs why because while attempting the video calls the user has to put the cam in front of his face that means the user has to move according the lens of the camera.
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A Multipurpose power point became useless as it is not designed with usability in Mind. One can not switch it on or off when it is plugged in.
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This is the picture of a room. It is constructed such that no light enters the room in any way. The room is always dark, irrespective of the brightness outside. flaw.
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This is a lemon juice extractor. The holes of the sieve in this extractor are so big that even the lemon seeds pass through it.
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This is a kitchen sink. If the tap is opened even to wash hands, the water bursts out of the sink.
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Now-a-days our world is facing a serious problem with cellphone towers. The people who are living in the surroundings also facing so many health problems.
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Concentrated body weight on the foot heels may make them harder and develop yellow patches on it. It may also cause misshapenness of your feet.
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There are several hazards that are known to be caused by mosquito coils. Recent studies showed that the smoke generated from burning mosquito coil is of certain health concerns – one burning mosquito coil produces the same amount of particulate mass (diameter up to 2.5 μm) as 75-137 burning cigarettes would; and the emission of formaldehyde from one burning coil can be as high as that released from 51 burning cigarettes.
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Bad Design Showcase
International Cartoon Showcase
All Bad Designs
All International Cartoons
1. (8575) Bike Choke in Hero Honda
2. (8182) New Ladies Jeans Design
3. (6391) Difficulty in cleaning the lid
4. (6227) Nail Cutter
5. (5897) There is nothing to hold
6. (5265) Mumbai Taxies
7. (4702) Usha Lexus Mixer Grinder Lid
8. (4537) Tuhin Paul, India
9. (4143) Care should be taken to use sta…
10. (4108) People carry heavy luggage
1. [9] (1) Mahmoud Sanati, Iran
2. [5] (9) Abani Kumar Rath,India
3. [5] (7) Senad Nadarevic, Cazin
4. [5] (6) Marcin Bondarowicz - Poland
5. [5] (6) Senad Nadarevic, Cazin
6. [5] (3) Michael Mayevsky ,Ukraine
7. [5] (3) Michael Mayevsky ,Ukraine
8. [5] (3) Michael Mayevsky ,Ukraine
9. [5] (3) Valluri Krishna Kishore, India
10. [5] (3) Miroslav Bozhkov, Bulgaria
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