Education plays a vital role in the development of an active citizenry of a nation. A well educated population is able to take charge of the many issues facing society, including social problems and political decisions, rather than sitting by the sidelines and allowing someone else to do deciding for them.
Design in essence is a message, it is a medium through which designers and businesses communicate how a new product and service will make our lives both easier and exciting. We the design community should take the ownership of educating the users and consumers of products and services through better design. So much so that peripherals like communication design and information design around these products and services gets quite crucial in informing and educating users about them.
UMO encourages all enthusiasts to highlight adverse effects of bad information design every where around us. Please bring in real life issues ranging from a piece of ticket (any ticket), forms/e-forms to labels & product packaging, medicine packaging/ labels, product manuals, movie posters, government notices, news papers, magazines, information systems, maps, signage, webpages and many others that we encounter in our day to day use.
The following 6 entries were chosen as the best submissions ( Rs. 5000/- each ) for the "Boycott Bad-Design Contest'11"
The following 4 entries were chosen as the most popular entries for the "Boycott Bad-Design Contest'11"
Team-UMO duly acknowledges it's gratitude towards all the participants.
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.
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.
Iv cannula is made up of polypropylene and silicon which may not be harmful but iv cannula causes tissue damage.
As our Indian railway are the world’s largest railways. But it was lack in its safety which causing many deaths.
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.
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.
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.
Camera comes with extra fittings like adaptor ring and lenshood to protect the lens from sunlight.
Bad Design Showcase
International Cartoon Showcase
All Bad Designs
All International Cartoons
1. (8180) New Ladies Jeans Design
2. (8136) Bike Choke in Hero Honda
3. (6391) Difficulty in cleaning the lid
4. (6227) Nail Cutter
5. (5891) There is nothing to hold
6. (5264) Mumbai Taxies
7. (4688) Usha Lexus Mixer Grinder Lid
8. (4537) Tuhin Paul, India
9. (4141) Care should be taken to use sta…
10. (4106) 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
Abhijit: Wah! What an observation! Shabash!!!
L10N-Bridge: and when travelling, you need to have special power adapters with you, too -> redesign for …
Vivekanand Raula: Hi Venkat, good catch. I wish you all the very best.
saikrishna: its good
