As passionate travelers we always plan well in advance for all needs of transpiration, be it daily transportation to work/school; weekly transportation to country side, inter/intra city recreation/social gatherings; monthly transportation to cross state/country events, business meetings or a holiday; annual travel to in country, overseas or space travel. We also plan almost instantaneously for incidental/accidental sudden transportation needs to attend urgencies..

Despite of all this we cannot account for uncertainties raised by faulty systems, badly designed products and services. What we can certainly account for or bring to light is all those information systems, products and services which are badly designed.

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'08 Winners

The following ten entries were chosen as the best submissions for the "Boycott Bad-Design Contest'08"

• Divider : komal Mangu, Hyderabad,India
• Railway crossings : Nehakiran Singh, IIT Kanpur,India
• Garbage Bins : Tinton Abraham, IIT Delhi, India
• Bollards : Easterson Solomon-Francis, IIT Delhi,India
• signages   : Satpal Sharma, Hyderabad,India
• Confusion : Rahul Kothari, Bangalore,India
• cycle rickshaws : Tinton Abraham, IIT Delhi, India
• nothing to hold : Shamit Shrivastav,Pune,India
• Petrol filling : Neeraj Sharma,India
• railways : Umang Shah, IIT Kanpur,India

Special Award (from maximum number of votes online)

• Rusting : Swati,India

Details about the entries chosen for the exibition for World Usability Day'08 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.