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".

Oil Spills

K.Manasa, Kandukur

Oil spills happen when people make mistakes or are careless and cause an oil tanker to leak oil into the ocean. There are a few more ways an oil spill can occur. Equipment breaking down may cause an oil spill. If the equipment breaks down, the tanker may get stuck on shallow land. When they start to drive the tanker again, they can put a hole in the tanker causing it to leak oil.

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2011 - 01.22.

Absense of Manual start in Yamaha R15

Praveen Kumar K, Hyderabad

Being chosen as the Performance bike of the year 2009 Yamaha R15, still has a big flaw. It does not have a manual start and the rider depends on an auto electric start.

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2011 - 01.22.

Blindspots while driving a Car

Praveen Kumar K, Hyderabad

The windshield of a car has couple of edges which creates a blindspot while driving. This can be very dangerous and leads to accidents.

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2011 - 01.22.

Old TV

Timmaraju Sri Manyu , Hyderabad.

The old design of television is too big. it weighs a lot and also takes a lot of space.

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2011 - 01.22.

Cooling Fan In Laptops

Naveen Garg, Punjab

The place of Fan in Laptop for its cooling  is a bad design.
            Because When we place our laptop on Bed the cooling of laptop is not properly done because of it's downward direction of cooling and laptop gets Warm in just Few minutes.

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2011 - 01.22.

Power windows Of a car

Navya Chodisetti, Hyderabad

power windows cannot be operated until the power of car is on this is a bad design

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2011 - 01.22.

Taking Reverse Of Big Cars

Navya Chodisetti, Hyderabad

Its very tough for drivers of big cars to take reverse because the heights of seats are low and the behind the cars is mostly not visible.

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2011 - 01.22.

Flooring in bathrooms

Praveen Kumar K, Hyderabad

A typical bathroom will have the floors made of polished tiles (Ceramic tiles) which will be very slippery with water on it.

 

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2011 - 01.22.
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