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".

Conventional Design of Fans

Sudhir Bhosale, India

A fan with conventional design; the blades rotate, it projects air right downwards. It doesn't circulate the air all round the room.
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2009 - 09.15.

New Cadbury Hot Chocolate

Jithesh Ramesh, India

The product packaging has been redesigned from the old design which was just a plain cylinder that served very well for a long time.
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2009 - 09.15.

Polythene Covers

Rahul Tirpude, India & Hari Haran, SPA JNAFAU Hyderabad

Polythene Bags... There is a tremendous increase in the usage of polythene bags in today’s world.
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2009 - 09.15.

Bed Position Adjuster

Bambang Pramono, Indonesia

The beds in hospitals are provided with an adjustment devices.
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2009 - 09.15.

Tin Cans

Easterson Solomon Francis, IIT Delhi

Tin cans are now used to pack fizzy drinks and many other liquids. Tin Cans never decompose and it takes more than 100 years to decay.
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2009 - 09.15.

LPG Cylinder

Shilpa Jain, Rajasthan

The most common problem that every Indian housewife faces is, “How much gas is left in the Domestic Gas Cylinder?”
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2009 - 09.15.

CDs and Floppies

Niral Desai, IIT Kanpur

CDs and Floppies are absolute up to date technology that took the place of magnetic tapes.
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2009 - 09.15.

E-Scrap

Niral Desai, IIT Kanpur

Computer hardware and Silicon chips waste are not recyclable.
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2009 - 09.15.
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