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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:
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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)
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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)
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Digg.com: Registration Usability Sucks
That’s super lame! How many subscribers from Afghanistan, Angola and Antarctica do you guys have?
Why not to spend some of your time and work a little bit on the website’s registration page usability?
Is it too hard to organize the ‘country’ pool down list based on number of registrations? Or is it too hard to detect the user’s IP, convert it into ‘country’ info and then preselect the country name in the list (HTML tag <option> in tag <select>)?
Tip: Go check out how Google’s Gmail does it: https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount
Design Fail factor: 1(out of 10)
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A Physically Handicapped Cat as a Creamer
Here is another sample of “made in china” brutal tableware creativity: a physically handicapped cat with tear off paw to serve you as a creamer.
Design Fail factor: 9 (out of 10)
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Kaiser: “Don’t Taze me Bro”
Kaiser Permanente (health care organization in the US) recently came up with a fresh creative idea for billboard ads:
It is hard to say what message does Kaiser send to us. Am I also eligible to vote for myself or I am not qualified by age? Or only baby boomers are welcome to vote for themselves?
There is more. “You are under arrest. Step away from the vehicle, turn around and put your hands on top of your head”:
Impression I got after observing these billboards after a week:
Design Fail factor: 4 (out of 10).
Update: 7macaw’s suggestion:
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Atoyot
It is lame to expose logos this way when the text does not read in both directions (i.e not a palindrome)
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California Disaster Potato Chips
I bought this bag of potato chips at a nearby gas station just because of it’s brand name.
Wow! Let me take it from here. Here is an idea for the company to expand product line with the following:
- “New Orleans Chips: Mama of all Floods”
- “Southern California Chips: Wildfire on 1000 acres”
- “San Francisco Chips: #1 Earthquake and now Final”
- “Texas Chips: Hurricane Ike”
Possible initial Design idea: “The Earthquake taste of our chips will knock you down”.
Where the Fail is: In California, the word “earthquake” means “disaster“. However this is good name for a first aid and survival kits.
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