WaMu at present time.

Looks like she already had some discussion.

There’s a series of TV ads for Detrol LA featuring a woman who gets an advice from the bathroom sign to “have a Detrol conversation with your doctor”. Well, judging by the fact that she talks to a bathroom sign she already had an LSD conversation with her dealer!

Unintended(?) reference.

Not sure if the designers of this toy watched Pulp Fiction, but both my wife and I remembered this scene immediately.
P.S. Is it me or have they started all this Halloween crap a couple of weeks earlier this year than usual?

I want neither!

Saw an ad on TV the other day for some sort of a food storage thing, called “Greenbags”. The ad showed two heads of cabbage: one was stored in one of these “Greenbags”, another – in a regular bag. After 26 days the one in a regular bag was all rotten, but the other one [...]

UI design is supposed to improve with time.

No “design fail” type blog would be complete without some good old Vista bashing. So here’s some:
If you try to copy several files over some existing files, all previous Windows versions would ask you whether you want to overwrite file1 and would provide you with choices: “yes”, “yes to all”, “no”, “cancel”, so if I [...]

Bad and Good Design example in 2 pictures

Bad and Good Design examples just in two pictures.
Design and usability Sucks:
Design and usability OK:

Design Fail FIXED: Adobe HQ got rid of ugly gallows at their roof

In respond to my recent post about ugly look of Adobe HQ because of “gallows” on the roof, Adobe got rid of them after a few years of public exposure:
How it was before:
Good job, guys! And thank you for reading DesignFail.org
Design Fail factor: 0 (out of 10)

My 5 honor students all together are smarter than your dog!

Now I know who inspires “My dog is smarter than your honor student” bump sticker designers:
I think this is way overkill even if you are a father of 5 and all of them are “honor students”. Unless you have nothing else to be proud of in your life.
Design Fail factor: 1(out of 10)

Wrong selection order means lost productivity.

Hanging on the non-optimal list order theme. Check out this protocol list from Ethereal:
The filtering system in Ethereal is absolutely marvelous: just type whatever you want in the filter line. Alas, in order to type what I need, I have to remember the quasi-objects names in which the filter syntax encapsulates various protocol properties. Since [...]

Stop here and we will slam turnpike at the roof of your car

Another non-official road sign designed with high attention to details. Here it is: “Stop here on red and we will slam railroad turnpike at the roof your car and six particles of it will be airborne”.
Design Fail factor: 6 (out of 10)