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".
Child safety locks are build into the rear doors of most cars to prevent rear seat passengers from opening the door, the idea is that, when the lock is set you cant open the door from inside until and unless the driver should open it from the outside of the car.
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The Front loading Washing Machines may have greatest advantage, may well be it’s energy efficiency, but it also suffers from many cons & disadvantages:
1. Bending so far over to add & remove laundry can be an issue for many.
2. Adding to a laundry load is not as simple with a front loader washer. In order to add forgotten laundry, the machine must first be stopped. If the tub has already started to fill, it will have to drain before the front loading door will be open.
3. Parents who have small children need to be on a high alert, because kids love to find small places to hide & the front load design of these tubs seem like the perfect Club house for them.
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First of all this a very poor quality product which leads to hazards like electric shocks and short circuits. Even if the quality part is put aside this is not a very good design of an electric socket because it does not support all kinds of plugs (European and the American).
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When a newspaper is read it is always unfolded and after it is done so it becomes very clumsy to handle the whole newspaper. It’s not a big problem for those who are at home but for those who work or who travel a lot it becomes a big mess to carry and occasionally unfold the whole newspaper in the public and start reading it.
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A bus similar to the one that is shown is not a good means of transport on narrow streets. Due to their wide floor area they occupy most of the space on the streets and leave barely any room for other cars to pass. This causes traffic jam, slow traffic speed and total commotion.
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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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Abhijit: Wah! What an observation! Shabash!!!
sanjeev: Dear sir,
can you tell me any service centre of USHA LEXUS JUICER, in phagwara, Punjab
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taylormade r11 dr…: most people Wilson Tennis Racket are not stupid to grow up to ten
prabir Banerjee: Prabir banerjee on 03-04-12 said:
i want to know the service center of usha lexus mixer cu…
TAFE: Good for you! Akin to the Razzies. By the way how come we never win any Razzie?
L10N-Bridge: and when travelling, you need to have special power adapters with you, too -> redesign for …
Vivekanand Raula: Hi Venkat, good catch. I wish you all the very best.
pijush choudhury: i want to know the service center of usha lexus mixer cum jucer in asansol& kolkatta.My mix…
saikrishna: its good
