UMO - 6th Boycott Bad Design Contest'10

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.

Boycott Bad-Design Contest'10 Winners

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.

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Invisible Option in Gtalk

Gtalk doesnt have invisible option.

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2011 - 01.22.

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Keypad in touch phones

Keypad in touch phones are designed in a way to be used with a stylus not our fingers:
     Although a stylus is provided with the touch phones, it is not really designed in a way to sense the finger which is needed, thus finger having a higher surface area does not get well sensed sometimes.

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2011 - 01.22.

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Picture Albumns in FaceBook

Unknown people can see the entire picture album if his/her friend is tagged in even a single picture of that album:
    Anybody can access the entire photo album if any of his/her friend has been tagged in any photos of the same album.

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2011 - 01.22.

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Zinda Tilismath

The bottle of Zinda Tilismath, the Unani Medicine which is being used from many years is made of very thin glass, if slipped from hand will be smashed in pieces in a fraction of seconds as the size of this bottle is also very small.

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2011 - 01.22.

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Sending Friend rquests in Facebook

Friend requests are send to all the people added in the mail account:
    Sometimes, Facebook sends friend requests without permission to all the members added in the e-mail address provided.

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2011 - 01.22.

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poorer search engine in Face Book

Poor Facebook search engine: 
     Facebook has an comparatively poorer search engine than Orkut. It is extremely difficult to find a person with no mutual friends.

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2011 - 01.22.

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wireless headsets

Fm radios in cellphones doesnt work without the earphones:
  Although there are wireless headsets developed for the same, the idea has not yet reached the masses which still makes it an unsolved problem.

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2011 - 01.22.

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Drinking Straws

Thousands of drinking straws are used each day around the world. These are made of plastic and unsafe for children and even for adults.

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2011 - 01.22.

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