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'07 Winners

The following ten entries were chosen as the best submissions for the "Boycott Bad-Design Contest'07"

Rupee Coins : Yugant Sonawale
Coin Box Telephone : Shweta Gupta
Brasier Hook : Binapani Patra
Tablet Strips : Alok P Agashe
ATM Card : Abhishek Tongia
Milk Tin : Gourav Verma
Mobile Pouch : Manikanta
Bandage : Prantik Banerjee
Auto Meter : Ranjeet Kumar T
Gas Cylnder : M Vijay

Details about the entries chosen for the exibition for World Usability Day'07 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.