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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27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (November 30, 2025)
Designs are all around us, and we don’t even always notice them. When we get into our cars or snuggle up in our beds, design isn’t usually the first thing on our minds. We lead busy lives, and we often get preoccupied with other stuff. We have deep and robust personal lives, and that often …
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26 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (November 23, 2025)
Sometimes things just fail. We don’t know why. Sometimes we put so much into something, and he just can’t get anything in return. You know this if you’ve ever tried to assemble IKEA furniture. No matter how detailed the instructions or how simple it seems, you will probably reach a point where it feels like …
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22 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (November 16, 2025)
We all hate to fail. It’s not in our nature to easily accept defeat. We hate to be caught with our pants down, proverbially. It activates that caveman part of our brains that wants to run and hide our faces from the rest of our tribe. But failure is also a necessary part of life. …
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23 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (November 9, 2025)
Design is incredibly important, and you know that if you’ve ever lived in a house where you could not stand the decor. Maybe it was full of tchotchkes and the thin layer of dust, and you’re a minimalist. Or maybe it was all cold concrete and steel beams, and you missed the warmth of a …
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