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: Bad Designs | One comment

Car Bumper Hitting the Pavement

While parking the car along the pavement there are chances of the bumper hitting the pavement.

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Bad Designs | Eight comments

No Bus Number on Side of the Bus

Bus number is only displayed on the front and the back but it should also be present on the side of a bus.

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Bad Designs | Six comments

Window Position for People Standing in Bus

Window position is improper when we consider people standing in bus who need to bend down again and again to catch the glimpse of approaching bus stop.

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Bad Designs | Twelve 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: Bad Designs | One comment

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: Bad Designs | One comment

Shampoo Sachet

Shampoo sachets cannot be easily opened with wet hands.

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2005 - 11.02.

Category: Bad Designs | Four 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: Bad Designs | Six 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.