Good taste might seem like it's common sense, but we've got all the proof in the world that this isn't the case. Unfortunately, what looks awful to you and us and obviously doesn't function well isn't always apparent to the designers behind the disasters. We at Bored Panda love creative designs, but we also adore really bad ideas, too.
When you're done looking through our awesome list, check out our posts about epic design fails, the very worst kitchen designs, epically bad bar and restaurant designs, and structural nightmares. Hence, we're bringing you round 2 of the best things people have posted to the "crappy designs" subreddit, though be warned - you may need some time to recover after seeing them. Vote for the ones that made you cringe the hardest, and let us know if you've encountered any of these design fails in real life. While you're at it, check out our previous list here. Don't forget to vote for these atrociously funny fails, and if you like what you see then click here and here for more funny photos of hilarious design fails. By now, it looks like crappy design is something inherently human.
There's such an abundance of design fails, we'll probably never run out of it. I mean, is there a better way of getting your daily dose of whahahahahahaha if not judging others for their mistakes? Bored Panda has prepared another bad design list for you, poking fun at some of the most ridiculous projects that saw the light of day. From coffee mugs that were created to poke your eyes out to photography services producing outdated leaflets and beyond, scroll down to enjoy the funny fails and upvote your faves. Nonetheless, bad designs are a lot of fun to look at and laugh at. And there's no place who does it better than the 'Crappy Design' subreddit!
We collected some of the best, newest, crappy design fails from the Reddit community, so scroll down and enjoy. Remember to upvote your fave product designs gone wrong, and drop us a comment telling us why you loved hating them. Hence, we're bringing you round 2 of the best things people have posted to the "crappy designs" subreddit, though be warned – you may need some time to recover after seeing them. Vote for the ones that made you cringe the hardest, and let us know if you've encountered any of these design fails in real life.
While you're at it, check out our previous list here. Well, the truth is, designing text so it's readable isn't as easy as you'd expect. Typography rules that ought never be broken. Except that those rules are broken all the time by some oblivious people. Bored Panda collected some of the best examples of incredibly bad text design that is wonderfully enjoyable to make fun of. From lame ads to funny posters, nodofy is safe from bad design.
So upvote the best/worst fails, see if your friends can figure out what's actually written, and let us know in the comments if you've seen design fails that compare to these ones. Obviously, not everyone was meant to be an artistic virtuoso, but these epic fails are so 'out there' and impractical that it's hard not to judge them while rolling on the floor laughing. Here are the bad designs that we think are the most interesting and the funniest.
So scroll down, upvote your favorite funny photos and let us know if you've seen designs worse than these! And in case you're still hungry for some funny fails from backward-handed designers, check out more of Bored Panda's lists here, here, here, here, and here. We can't all be visionaries like Frank Gehry - sometimes eccentric ideas just translate into crappy design - like the ones on the following list.
No matter how many times we shame the bizarre creations of product designers everywhere, there seems to be an endless supply of poorly executed bad designs to choose from. So upvote the best/worst fails, see if your friends can figure out what's actually written, and let us know in the comments if you've seen design fails that compare to these ones. Even though bad home interior designs are something you should practice social distancing from, you can't deny that they can be hilarious… as long as it's not your home we're talking about! Remember, upvoting a photo here means that you love how fantastically horrid it looks. Be sure to let us know which of the worst design mistakes caught your eye the most, dear Pandas.
In need of more proof that your own sense of taste is actually really, amazingly good? You can find our other posts about truly awful design decisions right here, here, as well as here. Got any photos of bad designs around your house? Someone came up with these designs, someone approved them, and someone made them. In a few cases, some poor soul even bought them.
And you'll be wondering, with each of these 13 hilariously bad design fails, how it ever got that far. Akshayta Raowritesthat we all intuitively notice badly designed items but find it difficult to explain why good designs are, well, good. According to her, a well-known example of bad design would be USB cables. And it's hard to argue with her—we've all tried plugging them in the wrong way more than once. The community, which was established in May 2014, is large, having grown to over 513,000 members.
Pssst, Pandas, we know how much you love looking at epic design fails and aesthetic apocalypses, so we cordially invite you to check out Bored Panda's earlier posts about them after you're done enjoying and criticizing this list. You'll find the articles here, here, and here. In Antoniuk's opinion, there is such a thing as good and bad product, furniture, and interior design.
But degrees of preference create a gray area where a clear line between quality and a lack thereof should exist. The Interaction Design Foundation explains that bad designs are overloaded with information and force the user to do more work than is necessary. Akshayta Rao writes that we all intuitively notice badly designed items but find it difficult to explain why good designs are, well, good.
She's right because we've all tried plugging them in the wrong way more than once. Genius designers are obviously made, not born - that's the thought that's likely to pop into your head after scrolling through the popular subreddit Crappy Design. Here you can find the most artistically deprived and esthetically sinister design fails, which will have you wondering just how on Earth any of these product design ideas were allowed to get made. Previously, we shared some epiclogo disasters, letter-spacing fails, ad-placement blunders, and more.
Today's post features some more design fails that are bound to make you laugh at the laziness of the people who designed them. Here, FEMAIL reveals the most outrageous design fails from a light switch on a doorway to a toilet dangling over the stairs. At DesignBro, we have professional designers who can help you design the logo, packaging, or brand identity for your business.
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We've seen our share of crappy design, but store shelves are so abundant with them, there's always more to poke fun at. They're usually designed and made by adults, so you'd expect a considerable amount of consideration before manufacturing them, right? Bored Panda has collected some of the most questionable toys to prove that some designers have no clue what they're doing.
In the age of Instagram, it's hard to go five minutes without seeing an example of envy-inducing interior design. From minimal spaces to Wes Anderson-esque pastel hues, there are plenty of covetable decor trends doing the rounds right now. But if you want to feel better about your own home, these horrendous interior design fails ought to do the trick. Are you in the mood for some more horrendous examples of design?
Well, once you're done scrolling through this list and upvoting your fave horrible design pics, we invite you to check out earlier posts about design fails here, here, and here. "I think nowadays eclectic solutions are on the rise; it's really popular to combine different interior design styles," Striukienė told Bored Panda. Before deciding on how your shop sign, book cover or even a newspaper is going to look, you should definitely reexamine the final draft. From these bad design examples, though, you can see, that they were not revised. Or were left as they are as some evil joke to the customer.
If you do not desire to be left with doors that only open for a Jedi, a Minion shampoo bottle crying bloody tears, or a street sign that's utterly indecipherable - better not mess with the designer. Another common error that designers make is unfortunately spelling errors. While these types of epic fails can be avoided, it can still happen to the best of us. So, before submitting in any work, make sure that all of your spelling and grammar are correct. But most importantly, make sure that your text does not end up sending the wrong or inappropriate messages as this can be disastrous!
If you need any help, you can always ask a second or third person to reread your work. The biggest design fails onlineBemused internet users from around the world have shared the most hilarious design fails they have come across in their daily lives in a Bored Panda thread. Bemused internet users from around the world have shared the most hilarious design fails they have come across in their daily lives in a Bored Panda thread.
From these incredible Studio Ghibli interiors to those film-inspired home offices, we've seen all sorts of weird and wonderful interior design concepts over the last year. But, as these horrifying images prove, sometimes the most nightmarish designs aren't confined to, well, nightmares. If you're inspired to create an interior design concept of your own, hellish or otherwise, check out the best 3D modelling software available now. Continue scrolling and check out the times designers messed up so mad, it's like they don't even know how to use common sense! After you're done, fire up Bored Panda's earlier pieces on sub-par design here, here, and here. However, we're not the only ones who think that bad designs can be a lot of fun .
The founders of the Ugly Design Instagram page, Jonas Nyffenegger and Sébastien Mathys, told Bored Panda in an earlier interview that bad designs jump out at people from the screen and grab their attention. The subreddit that makes fun of bad designs is a goliath on Reddit with a whopping 2.6 million members. The online group has been active since January 2011 and has become a true pillar of design discussion online, ranging from the silly and fun to the in-depth and serious.
The Crappy Design subreddit with more than 2.3 million members is home to the worst designs ever and we bring you the newest ones to scare your artistic friends with. Even if you know next to nothing about good design, you'll intuitively shy away from some of these design choices. Scroll down, upvote your fave crappy designs, and let us know in the comments which ones you loved to hate the most.
FROM the dangerous to the inappropriate, these design fails must have cost a fair few people their jobs. FROM the dangerous to the completely inappropriate, these design fails must have cost a fair few people their jobs. We know how much you enjoy design fails, so you can read Bored Panda's previous posts about them here, here, here, here, and here. Design seems like such a simple, elementary thing when you think about it, but hordes of people keep getting the basics wrong, often with hilarious and side-splitting results. Buildings are hard to design, as are other objects, but we usually take the layout of sentences and phrases for granted, as though everyone will be able to understand us no matter how.we.words.our.place.
Here are two completely different products, used for completely different purposes, that share the same exact packaging design. Now, this is what we can easily recognize as a call for disaster. Could you imagine people mixing up the two products, spraying fly and insect repellent on your cooking pan instead of canola oil?
The worst part is that we can't blame them either because anyone can accidentally end up using one product for the other. Here are 50 hilarious text design fails that are sure to get you in a good mood. If these hilarious snaps reveal anything, it's that common sense was most definitely not on the cards when the creations were designed. AMUSING snaps show the biggest design fails of all time. If you thought designing toys is hard, wait until you see this list of the biggest clothing disasters.
You try to stylize a pair of white shorts, but the abstract marks end up looking like poo. Or you mess up the lettering and gym socks become cum socks. Bored Panda has collected these and other hilarious examples to enlarge our collection of wardrobe fails, proving all designs need a second opinion before going into production. We hope the entries will make you more attentive on your next shopping trip! Scroll down to enjoy them and upvote your favorites.
Not every idea that seems absolutely genius at 2AM is equally brilliant when it comes to life. The truth is, most of our "eureka!" moments turn out to be pretty crappy designs and yet nobody takes a lesson from it. Check out our previous compilations, aka homage to "what de heck they were thinkin'," with designs gone wrong here, here, and here. Some aspects of interior design, however, are more universal than others. "First and foremost, spaces have to be functional. Everything else is more or less decor, creating a certain mood," Judita Striukienė said.
"Only after a designer makes the apartment or house serve the owner's lifestyle and everyday life can they start working on other things like eliminating the flaws of that particular place." Decorating your home can be a fun experience. You can enhance its strengths, hide its weaknesses, and make it a reflection of yourself. Or you can put the toilet in the kitchen, transform the pool into a flower pot and call it a day. Just don't be surprised if photos of your chateau end up on the internet and people laugh their heads off. We know how much you enjoy these funny fails concerning design, so you can read Bored Panda's previous posts about them here, here, here, here, and here.
Buildings are hard to design, as are other objects, but we usually take the lettering and layout of sentences and phrases for granted, as though everyone will be able to understand us no matter how.we.words.our.place. So let's see some of the worst home design faux pas shared on this page below, and be sure to check out our previous post here. There are plenty of examples of bad design out there, but we can find some excellent designs here and there. And good design involves uniting the concept you have with the physical end-result of the product. Designs at their best can make your brand memorable through catchy slogans and imagery.
