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.
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.
'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 todays 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. Its 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, its time we thought about how our creations, the products and services we create and we use impact our world.
The college chairs which are generally used, will have a writing pad on the right hand side of the chair, which causes the problem for the students who are left handers enabling them to use their own writing pads on the other side.
.jpg "Bad Designs")
Conventional Car wipers just clean outer side of windows during rainy season and large amount of foam or mist in generated in inner view which creates lot of problem for drivers view.
.jpg "Bad Designs")
Phone keypad is to hard to work on it for typing messages it takes long strain in this particular model.
.jpg "Bad Designs")
The graphical interface of the operating system windows and linux . There can be certain corrections like all the folders have same color and design .
.jpg "Bad Designs")
This Bajaj pop-up toaster is not provided with an automatic time setter. hence when one puts the bread into the toaster he/she has to keep looking over it if the bread is properly burnt or not.
.jpg "Bad Designs")
The cell phone keys are too small and so we are often prone to mistyping.As a result, often, in a hurry we make spelling mistakes.
.jpg "Bad Designs")
The Toilets in the trains are flushed directly on the tracks which cause a havoc to the passengers who are standing near the tracks or stations.
.jpg "Bad Designs")
Bad Design Showcase
International Cartoon Showcase
All Bad Designs
All International Cartoons
1. (8180) New Ladies Jeans Design
2. (8103) 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
sriramamurthy.jas…: in the mouse there is a scroller only for vertical scrolling,but it is not useful to us for…
.jpg "Bad Designs")
