The Bad-Designs Showcase

This is where you'll find the biggest collection of Bad Design examples from daily life!!!

The Bad Designs were collected over the years from the user submitted entries for the World Usability Day Contests under the name "Boycott Bad Designs".

Electric Bore Well

Syeda Afrah Fathima, Karnataka

An electric bore well with its switch box open which is dangerous!

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2011 - 01.22.

Streets

Mohammad Shayan, UP

The streets are designed in which people directly cross the roads without any zebra crossing which creates lots of jam.

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2011 - 01.22.

Ipod Nano

Nikhil Mehta ,Pune

The latest version of the ipod nano released just days ago. It has a 1.5 inch touch screen. Touch screens of such small size are often irritating and useless.Moving your fingersover small icons make you select the wrong option when you actually want to select something else.

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2011 - 01.22.

Roads

J. Raghavendra, Hyderabad

In INDIA we find roads of these kind very commonly.
The reasons for these are:

1. using poor quality materials,
2. not following the i.s codes,
3. no proper banking angle for making the water flowing,

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2011 - 01.22.

Short Pencils

T.Gopi , Chirala

From a long time onwards we are using pencils but we can't write with short pencils.Thats why we waste the short pencils.

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2011 - 01.22.

Bomb Cell Phones

Shaik Mahaboob Subhani, Chirala

Now-a-days bomb attacks are happened by using the cell phones. so cell phones make possibles to connect with the bomb.

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2011 - 01.22.

Floppy Disks

M. Gopi Rajeev, Chirala

Olden days mostly floppy disks are used for storing purpose.Due to lack of storage memory the floppy disks are exhausted. so if there is an increase in the storage memory very useful and secure to maintain the backup of the data.

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2011 - 01.22.

CD/DVD Scratches and Cracks

R. Chiranjeevi, Chirala

Now-a-days backup of data is important so mostly people use cd's & dvd's for storing purposes.If any scraches or cracks may happen it may lead to the distruction of data in the cd's and sometimes it mayn't run.

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2011 - 01.22.
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