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".

Spectacles Frames

Rachna Madhavan

The Spectacles Frames are not foldable hence these are delicately handled.

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2011 - 01.21.

DELL’s CD Drive

Rachna Madhavan

IN DELL CPU Cabinet the CD Drive is placed vertically causing inconvenience as we have to mount the CPU Horizontally to place the CD into the drive.

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2011 - 01.21.

Sony Ericsson Plug-In

Rachna Madhavan

The Sony Ericsson mobile is provided with a common plug-in for charger and head set.

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2011 - 01.21.

Bench

Dinesh.R. ,Chennimalai

This photo is taken in a park. Its a bench with sharp corners.

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2011 - 01.21.

Memory Card Port

Dinesh.R. ,Chennimalai

This is a memory card port in nokia mobile. This lies on one side of the mobile.

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2011 - 01.21.

Brake Lights

Dinesh.R. ,Chennimalai

This is picture of a car. This picture depicts the arrangement of break light and indicator light close to each other. Due to this, the driver in following vechile got confuse.

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2011 - 01.21.

Indian Rupees

Dinesh.R. ,Chennimalai

The picture shows our Indian rupees. A research told that due to our Indian rupees lot of diseases are spreading.This is because people with their sweated hand count the money.

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2011 - 01.21.

Iron Box

Dinesh.R. ,Chennimalai

It’s the picture of my iron box.Its best suit for ironing the clothes.This is very easy to handle.But it is designed with heat adjusting buttons on the handle.

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2011 - 01.21.
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