When a design doesn’t work, it often draws more attention to itself than when it works perfectly. A wobbly shopping cart, a flimsy potato peeler, a puzzling highway sign: These are common nuisances.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world is full of many, many, many AWFUL designs. In fact, bad designs happen so often that there's an entire subreddit ...
It's one of the great dilemmas for a designer in any field: you take on a project with a list of client directives that will surely result in a design disaster. Your client thinks he knows best, but ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Did you know there is an entire subreddit dedicated just to bad designs?! It's called r/CrappyDesign, and not only are the images ...
Badly drawn, derivative, and forgettable logos. Poorly designed websites and mobile apps. Formulaic products with no flair or originality. If you’re a business, bad design hurts — from uninspiring ...
A regular glass ketchup bottle is a poorly designed experience. To serve the ketchup you have to hold it at a 45-degree angle, tap it in a special place, insert a knife, and then it splatters not only ...
I tell my clients two things to frame organic search discussions around content and user experience: Search engines want to provide answers to their users in one click or less. If you design your ...
A series of cascading design woes threatens to overwhelm what should be a simple setup for a small-business network Sometimes, you run into a series of uncoordinated, inexplicable design decisions ...