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".

Lemon Juice Extractor

Syeda Afrah Fathima, Karnataka

This is a lemon juice extractor. The holes of the sieve in this extractor are so big that even the lemon seeds pass through it.

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2011 - 01.21.

Kitchen Sink

Syeda Afrah Fathima, Karnataka

This is a kitchen sink. If the tap is opened even to wash hands, the water bursts out of the sink.

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2011 - 01.21.

Telecommunication Towers

G. Ravi teja , Chirala

Now-a-days our world is facing a serious problem with cellphone towers. The people who are living in the surroundings also facing so many health problems.

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2011 - 01.21.

High Heels

G.Aarathi, Hyderabad

Concentrated body weight on the foot heels may make them harder and develop yellow patches on it. It may also cause misshapenness of your feet.

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2011 - 01.21.

Mosquito Coils

G.Aarathi, Hyderabad

There are several hazards that are known to be caused by mosquito coils. Recent studies showed that the smoke generated from burning mosquito coil is of certain health concerns – one burning mosquito coil produces the same amount of particulate mass (diameter up to 2.5 μm) as 75-137 burning cigarettes would; and the emission of formaldehyde from one burning coil can be as high as that released from 51 burning cigarettes.

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2011 - 01.21.

Microwave Ovens

G.Aarathi, Hyderabad

Here a major disadvantage with microwave ovens is that we cannot cook all kinds
of food in it, there are some restrictions like we cannot boil eggs in the  oven, if we try to do it, eggs totally gets smashed up and spreads on to the walls of it and not that easy to clean it up.

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2011 - 01.21.

Cracks on Walls

Praveen Kumar, IIIT - Hyderabad

Due to internal failures such as heavy loads, improper foundation, cracks are developed on the wall, and due to external agents such as rain, wind etc the wall has broken down.

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2011 - 01.21.

Vaseline Sunscreen

Vinay Kushwaha, Delhi

Here I have used the picture of Vaseline sunscreen although the problem I want to highlight is common for all the containers like this. Whenever we buy these creams initially we enjoy applying them but as the cream in the container reaches half or much lower we face a lot of problem in getting cream out of them.

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2011 - 01.21.
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