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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27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild
These designs are off the rails… literally. Have you ever walked into a room and just known that there was something wrong? You didn’t have your finger on what exactly it was, but something about the energy of the room just made you feel off-kilter. If you’re anything like me, this happens to you sometimes. …
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27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild
Sometimes designs just fail us. Sometimes we don’t make mistakes; mistakes just make us. We all do it, and it’s part of what makes us human. If we didn’t, then people would be concerned about us. That friend who texts with perfect spelling and grammar all the time? I don’t trust them as far as …
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‘Please leave the building before posting it on social media’: 27 Baffling design choices found in the wild
Sometimes you see something that you just can’t explain. Have you ever played the game GeoGuesser? If you haven’t, let me explain it to you right now. You get dropped off in the middle of a random location, and you are in the world, and you see it from street view on Google Earth. You …
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23 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild
Are you the type of person who can easily spot a typo? If you are, then the world might be a terrible place for you. There are typos everywhere. Even in reputable publications that you would think wouldn’t have them. If you know how to look for them, then you’ll find little mistakes everywhere in …
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27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (December 14, 2025)
Some designs speak to us, and some do not. It’s all a matter of your own personal taste. Maybe you grew up in a very 90s Tuscan kitchen, full of rooster knick-knacks, and now your kitchen is the exact opposite, full of millennial gray and clean lines. Or maybe you grew up in a minimalist …
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24 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (December 7, 2025)
Why is it so funny when things go wrong? Are humans just so cruel by nature that when we see somebody else fail, we can’t help but laugh? Are we that insecure about our own success that it makes us smile to see somebody else make a mistake? Or is it a sympathetic response? Are …
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