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 keypad of a normal mobile phone is designed with alphabets 'abc' starting at key 2 and then serially following. This means the alphabet keys are not arranged according to the frequency of occurrence of the particular letter in the English language.
For example, 'e' is a letter which is used most frequently in the English language and it occurs as the 2nd letter on key 3. This makes us press the key ‘3’ twice to type 'e'.
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If there are big trees in the middle of the footpath every 10 steps then it is very difficult to keep walking on the footpath. As a natural phenomenon of the human psychology if a man keeps finding trees and plants every few steps on the pavement then he is sure to leave the footpath soon and will start walking on the edge of the road. Now as the no. of pedestrians increase on the road it becomes more difficult for the drivers to drive who constantly have to avoid the pedestrians and in this way the place becomes prone to accidents.
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Bottles like the one given in the picture are very difficult to hold or carry because of their wide body. One has to always hold the neck of the bottle in such a case which is also not desirable as it becomes tiring after some time.
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The 5-point crossing that is shown in the picture is a very bad way of designing the roads. The reason is that when one of the lanes is free to go the vehicles in the other lanes cannot move. So at a time only one lane is open. This reduces the traffic flow and the also hinders the average traffic speed.
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The CD has 2 surfaces. One of them is the surface on which data is stored. Now while handling the CD (i.e. inserting or removing it from the optical drive or placing it in its case) there is a fair possibility this surface of the CD might get scratched or damaged which might lead to malfunctioning of the CD.
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Though the heels look pretty for women, but it causes more effect on their bodies it may leads to some type of pains. For example by wearing stiletto heels, platform heels, wedge heels.
Heels and pain are sides of the same coin. Though women look lovely in heels, they have to suffer form many of its side-effects. Here is the list of bad effects of wearing heels.
Foot pain
Most of the women suffer form foot pain after walking with high heels. Because of high heels the entire pressure of body is concentrated on the feet. If this happens for a longer time it can cause foot and even hip pain.
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Thousands of people travel in train each day, but passengers are facing trouble during rainy season, where rain water comes inside on the train as u see in the picture.
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In our indian trains ,fans fixed on the roof top, were just adjecent is the sleeper bed as u see in the photo.
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Bad Design Showcase
International Cartoon Showcase
All Bad Designs
All International Cartoons
1. (8282) Bike Choke in Hero Honda
2. (8182) New Ladies Jeans Design
3. (6391) Difficulty in cleaning the lid
4. (6227) Nail Cutter
5. (5896) There is nothing to hold
6. (5264) Mumbai Taxies
7. (4690) Usha Lexus Mixer Grinder Lid
8. (4537) Tuhin Paul, India
9. (4143) Care should be taken to use sta…
10. (4107) 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
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