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".

Plastic Water Bottles

Yasaswani Manikya Meesala - Bhimavaram

People think that it is not healthy to drink water from the tapes available at public places and buy water bottles but the water bottle they buy is made of plastic and the water is stored in that bottles from many days since manufactured.

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2011 - 09.22.

Disposable Pens

Yasaswani Manikya Meesala - Bhimavaram

Daily lakhs of people use pens. Now a day’s every one using plastic pens which costs 2 or 3 rupees. These are made of plastic and decomposition is difficulty and are not reusable.

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2011 - 09.22.

IV Cannuala causes tissue damage

Yasaswani Manikya Meesala - Bhimavaram

Iv cannula is made up of polypropylene and silicon which may not be harmful but iv cannula causes tissue damage.

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2011 - 09.22.

Indian Railway - Local Train Safety

Yasaswani Manikya Meesala - Bhimavaram

As our Indian railway are the world’s largest railways. But it was lack in its safety which causing many deaths.

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2011 - 09.22.

Cool pad S100

Yasaswani Manikya Meesala - Bhimavaram

Cool pad s100 mobile provides screen which is not flat and it makes difficult to clean around the  corners as dust gets struck at corners.

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2011 - 09.22.

Gmail lacks Multiple Tabbing

Yasaswani Manikya Meesala - Bhimavaram

Gmail doesn’t provide its users with multi tasking or multi tabbing option. So, It is not possible to view more than one mail at a time and perform  more than one task at a time.

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2011 - 09.22.

Nokia 1650 and 1100

Tushar Maroo - Jaipur

These two models of nokia corporation have vulnerability (a security breach) i.e. if we lock the mobile by key guard with the use of security code so that no one can access our phone.

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2011 - 09.22.

Sony digital camera - DSC-H7

Bhanu Prakash - Hyderabad

Camera comes with extra fittings like adaptor ring and lenshood to protect the lens from sunlight.

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2011 - 09.22.
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