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 …
Seguir leyendo 27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (November 10, 2024)

Design fails are all around us, we just may not notice them. All around, there are doors that look like «pull» but are really «push.» There are unclickable pens and pencils with faulty erasers. There are tables with crooked legs and shoes that pinch your toes. And then there’s whatever the heck is going on with …
Seguir leyendo 27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (November 3, 2024)