Design = Failed. Day = Made. These designs didn’t have a lot going for them. Maybe they’re riddled with typos, maybe they were the result of poor planning, maybe something just went wrong somewhere down the line. Oftentimes, failures can teach us things. It’s how we learn anything when we’re babies– we try something and …
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26 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (October 2, 2026)
These designs have failed us. But that’s okay. Sometimes it’s okay to have expectations, and for them not to be met. It’s okay to want something and then to not get it. In fact, it happens all the time. You can be upset about it, or you can choose to see the best in the …
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25 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (September 25, 2026)
Do you need a bit of a design fail today? There are so many things in life that go unnoticed. If we walked around noticing everything all the time, we would never get anything done. We’d be too busy noticing. The sky, the trees, the buildings, the feeling of the socks against our feet, the …
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27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (September 10, 2026)
These designs are in their flop era. A flop era is something that everyone has to go through, no matter who they are. None of us are immune to it in the end, nor should we be, because they teach us everything. Nothing like a mistake to cast into relief all the times you did …
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22 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (September 4, 2026)
These designs belong in the museum of failure. Life is not easy. Everything is legit so hard. The fact that most of us get out of bed every day and do what we’re supposed to do is a miracle. There is so much that can go wrong, and there is so much that we could …
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20 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (August 27, 2026)
Design fails can happen to us all… if we’re not careful. Failure is a natural part of life. If we never failed, we would never learn. Failure is actually the best way to figure something out. It helps you understand why things don’t work and why things do work. It’s important to embrace failure whenever …
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25+ Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (August 20, 2026)
When a design goes wrong, who can we blame but ourselves? Design is everywhere, and it’s easy for it to fade into the background. When things go right, we tend not to notice it. But when things go wrong, it’s all we can look at. Think of how design is all around you, even where …
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34 Signs That Prove that If There’s a Sign, There’s a Story
Signs don’t just appear out of nowhere. Nobody wakes up one morning and thinks, «You know what this place needs? A laminated piece of paper taped to a pole.» No. Signs are born from experience. From suffering. From that one specific person who did that one specific thing that nobody thought needed to be explicitly …
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32 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild
These designs don’t make sense. But life often doesn’t. And part of the work we have to do on earth is to make sense of things that don’t make sense. Because if we went around throwing up our hands at everything absurd, where would we be? For example, right now I’m eating a pumpernickel bagel …
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26 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild
These designs will take you by surprise. And then they’ll take you to laugh town. As a person who spends a lot of time thinking about what makes people laugh, I still ultimately have no idea. It’s mysterious to me, and it’s probably mysterious to you, too. There is definitely a formula that you can …
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