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".

Desktop Components’ Wires

Ashraya.S.Shiva, Mysore

Today, a desktop has so many peripheral components, that it has increased the amount of wires that dwell behind the system.

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2011 - 01.21.

User Interface

Ashraya.S.Shiva, Mysore

This is a snapshot of a website that connects to a database for retrieval of information about protein-protein interaction networks of many organisms. The User Interface of this website is so confusing for theoretical computer scientists, having no background knowledge of biology, to search for the appropriate organism and retrieve the apt data of protien networks.

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2011 - 01.21.

Unorganized Exposed Wires

Ashraya.S.Shiva, Mysore

This is a picture of how recklessly, a high tension wire is left near a coconut tree. If by any chance the tree gets burnt because of worn out insulation, or the wire gets cut, then it is a danger for the residents in the area, especially, during raining season.

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2011 - 01.21.

4 USB Hub

Ashraya.S.Shiva, Mysore

This a 4 USB hub. Since USB ports carry out serial transmission of information, this hub having 4 ports, can support only 1 USB device at any one time.

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2011 - 01.21.

Desktop UPS

Ashraya.S.Shiva, Mysore

This is UPS for a desktop. As you can observe, it does not have a provision to plug the rectangular pins of a hot swappable hard disk, etc.

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2011 - 01.21.

Night Lamp Panel

Ashraya.S.Shiva, Mysore

This is night lamp panel. The plastic has burned out because of the heat of the glowing bulb.

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2011 - 01.21.

Present days we can use multiple operating systems in single system.To do this we have to reboot system every time. It will make lot of time lagging.

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2011 - 01.21.

Entering and Exiting from Trains

V.Mamatha, Kandukur

Most of the people faces problems on entering or exiting from the trains due to steps . Because some distance between steps and platform many accidents occur. Mainly children and old people faces this type of problems.

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2011 - 01.21.
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