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UMO - 2nd Boycott Bad Designs Contest'06

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.

Technology has become a way of life, but at the cost of ease of use. We come across so many products and systems at offices, banks, restaurants, theaters, reservation counters, transport stations and for that matter even in our homes. Most of them are pleasing to look at and offer great features but are rarely of any use. The common experience that has been observed amongst the users of these new age products and services is frustration leading to annoyance.

The objective of this competition was to identify most badly designed product or a system or a service that we use in our day-to-day lives, get annoyed with and eventually ignore.

Boycott Bad-Design Contest'06 Winners

The following ten entries were chosen as the best submissions for the "Boycott Bad-Design Contest'06"

Photo Flash : Shashank Shekhar
Designer Windows : Henrik Olsen
Flip Phone : Komal Mangu
CD ROM in Laptops : Bhanu Prakash
Stamp Pads : Saurabh Malhotra
Laptop Key Board : Sudhir Bhosale
Bike Choke in Hero Honda : Yogish L Shettigar
Railway Platforms : Vijay Saradhi
Coupon Validating Machine : Apurva Patel
USB Drive & CPU : Srikar

Details about the entries chosen for the exibition for World Usability Day'06 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'06 Entries Preview

CD Mania

Buying bulk of cd's at a time is definitely cheaper and time saving...

2006 - 11.08.

Category: Boycott Bad Design 06 | One comment

Kick Start Lever

How can you be convinient with a kick rod for which you always ought to unfold the footrest.

2006 - 11.08.

Category: Boycott Bad Design 06 | One comment

Is Style That Important?

Fire extinguishers are an amazing design helpful in an emergency.

2006 - 11.08.

Category: Boycott Bad Design 06 | One comment

Railway Platforms

Despite the technological growth happening, some hard facts arenot being attended.

2006 - 11.08.

Category: Boycott Bad Design 06 | Nine comments

Coupon validating machines

CVM's - a good solution to make sure no one's times is wasted.

2006 - 11.08.

Category: Boycott Bad Design 06 | One comment

MCB Switches

You don't know weather it’s ON or OFF!!!

2006 - 11.08.

Category: Boycott Bad Design 06 | One comment

About Toilet Papers

This subtle enclosure leaves you frustrated when you try to take one paper out of it and it doesn't allow you to.

2006 - 11.08.

Category: Boycott Bad Design 06 | One comment

Mobile Phone Numeric Keys

Positioning of keys in a mobile changes the look of it as a whole.

2006 - 11.08.

Category: Boycott Bad Design 06 | No comments

"World Usability Day" is an Earth Day style event held on 14 November 2006, focused on raising awareness and visibility of usability engineering and user centered design. UsabilityMatters.Org is the local event coordinator for the World Usability Day-2006, Hyderabad, India event.

UsabilityMatters.Org has organized a 9 day exhibition and a host of activities on November 14, 2006, for the World Usability Day-2006 in Hyderabad, India.

The exhibition and the conference was well attended by over 200 people from usability community, students, and professionals from Design related domains from Hyderabad.