Communication is the new order of life on our planet. H2O, O2 and a skill set on our resumes is not enough anymore to survive in this ever growing complex ecosystem of life.
Mobile and social communication is a big buzz word and why not, after all we have over 300 million mobile subscribers.
Communication is one of the most basic and also the most complicated of human expressions. Depending on the context and situation, communication can address plethora of emotional needs and can make or break relations, career and business. Communication is the most powerful of all mediums. But unfortunately and inevitably we let developing technologies seize the control of our communication. Medium has become the messenger and message itself now.
Boycott Bad Design Contest'10 encourages participants to look at various means, modes, mediums, products and services of communication from the most latest micro blogging rage like Twitter on the Internet to the not so pre-historic mediums like newspapers, radio, television and telephone. All identified bad designs must be currently in use.
The following ten entries were chosen as the best submissions ( Rs. 3000/- each ) for the "Boycott Bad-Design Contest'10"
Jury Panel | Competition Details
Team-UMO duly acknowledges it's gratitude towards all the participants.
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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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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