‘Any creative solutions?’: Real estate expert bemoans newbuild design feature, starts ridiculous interior design meme

I sure am glad that I’m not an architect. You have to think about so many different things, even when you’re designing something as humble as a house. The result could be a livable, admirable work of art — or, as with much of middle America, it could be yet another take on McMansion hell.  …
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Glaring Reasons Why Jerks Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Design Things

By now, we are all used to the fact that Capitalism™️ requires businesses to keep coming up with clever new ways to maximize profits by bamboozling consumers, but sometimes the levels of trickery can reach infuriating heights. Some true a-holes out there design products, websites and interfaces not so much to sell us something of …
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40+ Hideous Houses That Are Experiencing an Existential Crisis

Ever see one of those absolutely atrocious McMansions with way too many shuttered windows and inexplicable turrets? Then there are those cursed living rooms with too many out-of-place objects for comfort, like a random toilet where the fireplace should be, or marble steps leading to nowhere. Keep scrolling for a collection of houses with menacing …
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Perplexing Examples Of Infuriating Design

We can’t hate on people who happened to fall into a design gig without any prior experience, but there are some real asshole designers out there who seem to get off on making people’s lives just a little bit more irritating. Who the hell designs a bike rack that bicycles can’t fit into? Are you …
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20+ Reasons Why Jerks Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Design Things

By now, we’re all used to the fact that Capitalism™️ requires businesses to keep coming up with clever new ways to maximize profits by bamboozling consumers, but sometimes the levels of trickery can reach infuriating heights. Some true a-holes out there design products, websites and interfaces not so much to sell us something of actual …
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20 Examples Of Total Jerks Designing Things

Isn’t the whole point of hiring a UX designer or urban planner to make everyday interactions with environments and interfaces user-friendly? Well some things feel like they were designed to make us burn inside with intense rage. Whether it’s a poorly placed road sign or a website that tries to extort you at every click, …
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27 Spicy & Silly Design Fails

We try not to encourage laughing at the failures of others, but some people (these designers) make it way too easy. While we admittedly lack skill in the design department, we can’t help but think that the creatives who spearheaded these projects should have thought things through a little harder. But since they definitely didn’t, …
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23 Examples Of Infuriating Design

We can’t hate on people who happened to fall into a design gig without any prior experience, but there are some real asshole designers out there who seem to get off on making people’s lives just a little bit more irritating. Who the hell designs a bike rack that bicycles can’t fit into? Are you …
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