UMO - 5th Boycott Bad Design Contest'09

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.

Boycott Bad-Design Contest'09 Winners

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.

So tweet the Earth

Visit World Usability Day Home Home

'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 today’s 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. It’s 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, it’s time we thought about how our creations, the products and services we create and we use impact our world.

Boycott Bad-Design Contest'09 Entries Preview

An Air India Express airliner crashed outside Mangalore airport in Karnataka, killing 158 people when it burst into flames after overshooting a table-top runway and plunging into forest below.

Bad  Designs

Read More
2011 - 01.22.

Most of the in cities are using atms but if village people have it then it is for them to take money so by keeping atms in village and issuing atm cards by checking thumb impression of that person he is able to take money and there is no stealing of pinnumbers and should not have to enter pin numbrs or forgetting of pin numbers.

Bad  Designs

Read More
2011 - 01.22.

One can find LPG cylinders in almost every kitchen in India. The problem with them is that not everybody knows the way of putting the regulator over the nozzle of the cylinder to make it work. The prime users of these cylinders, the women folk have trouble in establishing a way to manipulate the regulator knob. They have to ask the help of others to put the regulator on the cylinder and on it properly. I think it is a problem which can seriously hamper the safety of a household.

Bad  Designs

Read More
2011 - 01.22.

If you are into "notorious" cars, this might be the pick of the auction. The Aztek is synonymous now with bad design. The way some people say the "Cadillac of…" or "the Lexus of…" Now, people in the auto industry might say a bad design was "Honda's Aztek." GM rarely parts with "first-off-the-line" cars, but they made an exception here.
 

Bad  Designs

Read More
2011 - 01.22.

This bike gets started by turning on the electric start , if the battery is low, then there is no other alternative to start the bike.

Bad  Designs

Read More
2011 - 01.22.

Here, carefully observe this railway track , no train can enter it , if at all any of the train enters, nothing can stop from a very big disaster.

 

Bad  Designs

Read More
2011 - 01.22.

In India current wires are not properly arranged. If any large winds occur or if any rain fall occurs then current wires are fall down. If any current wire touches the bus then shocks will arise.

Bad  Designs
Read More
2011 - 01.22.

We often wear cheppals which will cover total front part of foot. They are made up of plastic material.They cause lot of pain & black spots on our skin. Dead skin is formed on the effected area.

Bad  Designs

Read More
2011 - 01.22.