A term that has become popular on the internet to describe a type of less-than-aspirational character is a «failson» or a «faildaughter.» Failsons might live in their parent’s basement, might be addicted to video games, and may have made a lot less of himself than it seemed like he was going to. A faildaughter might …
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Things don’t always work out, and that’s okay. We may have been attached to a certain outcome and it didn’t come to pass, and that can hurt. Maybe you were really rooting for your team to play in the Super Bowl, and it didn’t work out. That can sting, I get it. But the problem …
Seguir leyendo 27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (February 9, 2025)

One of my favorite forms of comedy is simply when people mispronounce words. A well-placed mispronounced word makes me giggle until the cows come home. Like in Wet Hot American Summer, when Paul Rudd’s character says «durnal’ instead of «journal.» It’s a blink and you’ll miss it kind of moment, but if you catch it, …
Seguir leyendo 27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (February 2, 2025)

Have you ever looked at something and thought, «Something is wrong, I just can’t quite put my finger on it?» Perhaps you thought this while watching The Polar Express. The characters just look a little unsettling, though you couldn’t fully articulate the reason. Maybe the sensation you were feeling could be explained by «The Uncanny …
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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 …
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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 …
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