Who in their life hasn’t failed in a spectacular way? It’s a rite of passage as a human being. We have to fail publicly or we will never learn. That’s basically the whole point of childhood. We learn languages because we keep trying and failing to make sounds until we find the right ones. At …
Seguir leyendo 27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (January 19, 2025)

If you’ve ever been tasked to make a graphic, say your boss asks you to make a flyer for the office holiday party, or you’re promoting your small business on Instagram, or you have to make something for school, you know how hard it is to make a good one. You quickly come to appreciate …
Seguir leyendo 25+ Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (January 12, 2025)

In 2025, we’re all still making mistakes. We may have grown and changed and made resolutions, but we’re still messing up, and messing up big time. That will never change.  Have you ever messed up so badly at a job that you felt like you couldn’t show up to work the next day? If you …
Seguir leyendo 26 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (January 5, 2025)

It’s getting toward the end of the year, which means we’re looking back on all our triumphs of 2024- all the things we accomplished, we’re proud of, and we want to carry forward into 2025. It also might mean we’re reflecting on all the things we did wrong– all the mistakes we made, all the …
Seguir leyendo 27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (December 29, 2024)

The holidays provide lots of opportunities for design fails. You may be hanging the stockings by the chimney with care, but are you ensuring that Santa’s signature jolly phrase isn’t confused with a string of insults toward women? You may be wrapping your gifts like a pro, but are you making sure the phrase «Let …
Seguir leyendo 27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (December 22, 2024)

Have you ever pushed a pull door on accident? I certainly have. Sometimes, you can’t be blamed. The font is too small, the placement is too weird, and it is not an eye-grabbing color. This is a classic design fail. Someone was supposed to design something you could use, and they didn’t do a good …
Seguir leyendo 27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (December 15, 2024)

Some folks say that failure is inevitable. You can’t go your whole life only succeeding. That’s not life. You would have no opportunity to grow if you were immediately good at everything you tried. Imagine that, though, if you won a superpower in a would-you-rather-type scenario and were magically good at everything. What would you …
Seguir leyendo 27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (December 1, 2024)

When designs fail, we have no one to blame but ourselves. After all, we’re the ones who got ourselves into this situation. We created houses for ourselves to live in, products for us to consume, and signs to tell us where we’re going and what’s going to be there. So when something goes wrong with …
Seguir leyendo 27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (November 24, 2024)

We’re all allowed to fail, it’s what makes us human. If we didn’t fail, we wouldn’t know when we succeeded. If I spent my whole life only pushing doors that said «push» and pulling doors that said «pull,» I wouldn’t be able to congratulate myself when I finally remembered to read the sign. If I …
Seguir leyendo 25+ Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (November 17, 2024)

Sometimes designs fail us. They try to solve a problem and then just end up creating more problems. I’ve definitely done this. I’ve tried to put up a shelf in my room just to end up with a couple of holes in the wall that weren’t there before. Then I tried to fill in the holes …
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