27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (May 26, 2024)

Fails are what makes us human. Though we might call them out, laugh at them, and even dedicate a whole website to categorizing and gawking at them, we love fails because they remind us that we’re real.  Computers don’t make mistakes, but humans certainly do. It’s why pencils have erasers. That’s why there’s such a thing as a «mulligan.» It’s why when we see Scarlet take that tumble, we laugh. Sure, we …
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26 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (May 19, 2024)

We all make a typo now and then. We wouldn’t be human if we didn’t! I remember learning how to type in computer class in 4th grade. We would put orange silicon covers over the keyboards so we couldn’t see the letters and then take timed tests. Do kids still have to do that or …
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30 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (May 12, 2024)

Fails are a part of life. It’s what separates us from the computers, for now. We make mistakes, we goof up, we screw the pooch. It’s why they call it human error. Some mistakes are more visible than others, though. Accidentally make a right turn instead of a left? Easily rectified in most cases, and nobody has noticed. Drop a whole stack of …
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25+ Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (May 5, 2024)

Does anyone else have someone in their life who points out every little continuity error when you’re watching a movie or a TV show? For me, it’s my mom. No matter what we’re watching, she will point out that the character’s hair has changed slightly between shots, or that a cup was full in one shot and now it’s empty, or …
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25+ Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (April 28, 2024)

We’ve all made a typo every now and then. A little slip of the keyboard happens to the best of us. It probably happened to the best writers of history. We don’t think of Earnest Hemingway ever accidentally typing «hte» instead of «the» but he most definitely did. He just had editors who made sure …
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25+ Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (April 14, 2024)

Much like love, design really is all around. Just looking out of the window at the coffee shop where I currently am, I’m confronted with hundreds, if not thousands of design decisions. There’s the sign for the tattoo parlor across the street, the cars parked on the street, the hoodie that guy is wearing, heck, …
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25+ Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (April 7, 2024)

There are so many things that I’d design differently if I was in charge. A lot of them are food packaging-related. Flour is so poorly packaged. Once you open it, it gets everywhere and it’s impossible to close without making a mess. Just make the top of the bag resealable! Honey is also a disaster …
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25+ Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (March 31, 2024)

Sometimes words fail. We try with all our might to get our point across but we just can’t come up with the right language to put to our feelings. This happens to me when I’m angry or sad. The emotion gets too overwhelming and I end up tripping over my words like some kind of …
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25+ Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (March 24, 2024)

If a design fails in the middle of a small town and no one is around to post it on Reddit, does it really fail? When doing research for this meme list, that always crosses my mind. There are probably so many spectacular design fails out there, but it takes a keen eye and the …
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30 of the Funniest Shower Thoughts of the Month for Deep Thinkers (March 13, 2024)

The human mind is capable of incredible things. Some of us are out here curing diseases, building rockets, and writing great works of literature. The achievement of humanity is nothing to sneeze at. We’ve mapped the universe, figured out how gravity works, and even gone to the moon. But we are equally capable of being …
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