Category: Product Design

141 Designs That Are So Bad, They Deserve To Be Shamed On The Internet (New Pics)

April 24, 2023

Most of us can intuitively tell whether something is designed well or if the end result falls way short of what it should be like. The more we’re exposed to ads and products—both great and god-awful—the more our sense of taste develops.

Ever since 2011, this popular subreddit has been sharing examples of epic design fails that are beyond hilarious. In fact, they’re so bad, it’s mind-boggling that the people behind them green-lit them! We’ve collected some of the worst offenders to share with you, Pandas, so scroll down and upvote the designs you love to hate the most.

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#1 Being Gay Was A Sin They Said

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#2 This Amazing Pregnancy Test

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#3 So, It’s Fine Then?

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The subreddit has been poking fun at horrible and hilarious designs all the way since 2011. Over the past 12+ years, the community has grown absolutely massive. At the time of writing, the group had 3.4 million members.

Years pass, seasons change. But what stays constant is people’s appetite for shaming truly awful product and ad designs. (What changes, however, is how the internet reacts to names like the subreddit’s that use gentle curse words. These days, you can’t even mention them in full without some social media megacorps frowning in your general direction!)

#4 Seems A Bit Counterintuitive

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#5 A Solar Powered Parking Meter In An Underground Garage

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#6 Surely There Is No Better Way To Write Your Phone Number

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The subreddit’s moderators have created a fantastically detailed wiki that explains what does and doesn’t count as a bad design. For instance, amateur artwork or signs don’t belong in the online group because they were made by, well, amateurs. Similarly, broken things also don’t count.

#7 My Arms Are About 7 Feet Long, So This Wasn’t An Issue For Me

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#8 Love Handles

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#9 I Cancelled My Transaction Twice In A Row By Accident. I Finally Found Out Why

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And don’t even think of posting the Roman numeral for 4, IIII, as an example of awful design because it’s a fairly common alternative way to write IV. Meanwhile, unintentional errors like manufacturing defects also don’t count as examples of bad design. Neither do novelty items or obvious satire.

#10 What About When You Cross Your Legs?

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#11 Our Wedding Is Going To Have Three Delicious Meal Choices

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#12 Thanks For Reminding Me

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The mod team encourages its members to be original. So you shouldn’t be sharing any pictures that fall into the list of the top 150 most popular reposts. Software designs, hate symbols, and memes also don’t have any place on the sub. Meanwhile, all members ought to be as civil as possible, avoid sharing any personal information, and ensure that they write awesome descriptive titles for their posts.

#13 How Much Do You Trust Your “Multilingual” Ad Designer?

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#14 “How Do We Make It Clear That It’s A Male Hand Without Seeing The Nails?”

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#15 This Bus

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A while ago, interior design expert and then-editor at These Three Rooms, Ariane Sherine, had shared her thoughts on taste and aesthetics with Bored Panda.

“When it comes to aesthetics, ‘bad design’ is a very individual thing that comes down to personal taste,” she said that our personal tastes and (dis)likes affect our judgment of products and interiors.

#16 This Music Poster Looks Like A Guy And Girl Being Hanged

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#17 This Unfortunately Designed Kid’s Balloon

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#18 If Only There Was An Easier Way To See Who Was Outside Your Front Door..

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“It’s perhaps more helpful to talk about ‘bad design’ as design that doesn’t function as it should—for instance, a kitchen that doesn’t have what’s called ‘good flow’, where you have to walk impractical distances between complementary appliances and where the dimensions of the ‘kitchen work triangle’ (the distance between fridge, sink, and hob) aren’t practical,” the design expert said.

#19 Another Example Of Unrealistic Body Expectations For Men

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#20 Le Tits Now

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#21 I Needed Red. Guess Which One I Grabbed At First

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“A kitchen where there isn’t enough storage, where potentially dangerous appliances aren’t located safely, and where cornflakes and milk are placed at opposite ends of the room is what I’d call ‘bad design,’” she shared that a poorly-crafted space can be a huge headache for someone in their day-to-day lives.

“‘Good design’ is where a lot of thought and effort has been put into structuring and renovating a house so it’s perfect for the people living in it. It takes account of their aesthetic preferences but also focuses on the concepts I mentioned before, paying close attention to detail,” she told Bored Panda.

#22 No Thank You, I Think I’ll Pass

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#23 Artistic Kid Dies

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#24 Okay. I Know This Cake Is A Number 1 And It Says “emma,” But It Looks Like A Dick With Balls That Says “weed”

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“The only true way to ascertain whether a design is going to be a commercial success is to make it available for sale, market it widely, and see how many people buy it. But success is different to taste. Personally, I think taste is all about understatement, minimalism, and neutral decor. But again, that’s only my personal opinion!” the design expert told us during another interview, earlier.

“This will differ for each person, but for many people, loud and garish colors used liberally in the home would signify a lack of taste. Then again, I can think of designers who have based their entire career around the use of color and loud prints,” she said that there aren’t any hard and fast rules.

#25 If Only I Had Some Scissors…

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#26 This Maze Game

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#27 Meme Says It All…

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When it comes to furniture, you have to consider functionality, not just aesthetics. “Does the furniture function as it should? Is it likely to collapse or break easily? If seating, is it comfortable? I mean, my idea of aesthetic hell would be a bright purple inflatable sofa with lime green spots, but your mileage may vary! The question of comfort and function is a less subjective one,” the design expert shared a few of the considerations you should keep in mind when thinking about interiors.

#28 If You’ve Got It, Flaunt It

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#29 What’s My Age Again?

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#30 When Your Dental Banner Features An Execution

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Tell us all about which of these pics and fails made you cringe the hardest, Pandas. Meanwhile, for some more amazingly awful designs, check out Bored Panda’s previous features right here, here, as well as here.

#31 F**king Hurry!!

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#32 This Could Have Been Avoided With 1 Focus Group (of Women)

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#33 This Jfk Memorial

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#34 No Way Anyones Getting Past That

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#35 Attention

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#36 Two Flamingos, One Vagina

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#37 Good Luck Wheelchairees

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#38 I Was Looking For Those…

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#39 Sometimes It’s Okay To Judge A Book By Its Cover

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#40 Love, Morriage, Boby?

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#41 Never Split Your Legs When You Slide Down!

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#42 This Flower Print Dress

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#43 If You Were In A Car, Would You Know What Accident To Do?

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#44 Toilets And Mirror Ceiling

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#45 This Warning Sign

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#46 All Ye Shall Come To Me For The Healing Of Burgers

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#47 This Awful Slide Placement

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#48 Which Is It?!

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#49 I Have No Idea What I’m Doing

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#50 Ass To Ass

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#51 In Japan, You Have To Follow These Signs While Driving At 70 Mph

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#52 This University Isn’t Very Good With Fractions

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#53 What A Great Packaging Choice

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#54 50 Lanes? Lets Merge Those Into 4

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#55 The Grill Being Sold On Amazon Is Only Supposed To Be A Foot Tall, But Can We Talk About The Gondola Silhouette?

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#56 Baby Jesus/severed Thumb Christmas Ornament

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#57 Correct Punctuation Is A Must!

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#58 Why Not Use The Selfie?

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#59 This Handicap Parking Spot…

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#60 Sparkling Red “slippers”

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#61 Cool… What?!

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#62 Teaching Kids The Harsh Reality Of Life

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#63 The Printing On This Ball

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#64 The Tans Will Fade…

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#65 Do You Squirt?

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#66 Toss Me A Cold One, Will Ya?

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#67 I’m Pretty Sure The Odds Are In My Favor To Win The Fight

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#68 The Vent In My Hotel Shower Doesn’t Seem To Work

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#69 Are The All The Translations Really Necessary Heinz?

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#70 Measurement Lines On An Opaque Bottle

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#71 Why The Hell Do The Weights Make Up The First H But Not The Last One?

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#72 Why Is It Not The A ??

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#73 Kitten Socks

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#74 Giant Is Seconds From Being Paralyzed

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#75 F**k Or Treat

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#76 But They Are Both Right Hands

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#77 “12 Wa S Y U Can Tell You Ha E Th Right”

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#78 We’re Sorry…

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#79 Not A Car, Not The Police…

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#80 This Monstrosity Will Surely Make Someone Want To Date These Handsome Men

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#81 Poor Url Choice By A Fagas Strap Company

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#82 How Big Is That Watch?!

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#83 I Want To To Open A Shop In Goa That Slightly Copies A Popular Chain, What Should I Call It?

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#84 We’re Not Happy ’til You’re Not Happy

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#85 Proof Your Layouts, People

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#86 Hot Dog Anyone?

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#87 No Use! Only Charge!

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#88 The Scaling Is So Bad…

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#89 Fake Zipper On Levi’s Boots Makes Holes In Your Boot When You Walk

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#90 Seriously?

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#91 Better Than Cream Cheese? No!

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#92 …the “O” Has Already Been Guessed

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#93 Doesn’t Sound Very Exciting

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#94 From Afar, This Sign Has A Completely Different Meaning

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#95 Happy 20170!

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#96 This Fucking Outlet At My University

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#97 One Of The Worst Flow Charts I’ve Seen In A While

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#98 Suicidal Holiday Introvert, Look No Further

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#99 The Three Multiple Choice Options My Physics Teacher Gave For This Example Problem

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#100 Printing Shop In My Home Town

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#101 The Official Emma Watson ‘beauty And The Beast’ Doll

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#102 Ho Ho Ho, Shit Down My Throat

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#103 Ndeeisgihgbnocrehnotoedr

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#104 Texcock Mextails

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#105 Beautiful Driveway. Sucks You Can’t Use It

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#106 This Slide With No Side Rails…

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#107 Let’s Come Up With An Easy Acronym To Let People Know We Support The Military

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#108 Literally Can’t Fall For This Scam

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#109 Stressed Backwards Spells…

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#110 Marketing Skills At Its Finest

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#111 While We’re On The Topic Of Awful Pool Design…

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#112 Heart Shape Headphone Splitter Looks Like A Nut Sack

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#113 Friend Posted This From A Lift In Vietnam

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#114 The Rails Should Prevent People From Hitting Their Head, But Instead They Trip Over Them. So Now, Traffic Cones

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#115 The Eight In This Clock

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#116 I Just Want To Heat My Hot Pocket

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#117 Ate At A Local Restaurant

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#118 These Hotel Room Directions

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#119 Do Love What You Do What You Love

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#120 When Does The O’s Play?

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#121 This Woman Looking Out The Plane Is Very Calm Considering She’s About To Crash Into The Hudson

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#122 The Awful Name Of This File

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#123 The Stairs Leading To This Bedroom

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#124 What

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#125 There’s A Line Forming Behind Me. I Have No Idea

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#126 This Watch Is Not Ez Read

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#127 The Worst Thing About Lenovo Laptops. A “Close Current Page Without Warning Button” Right Next To The “Volume Up” Button

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#128 That’s Like Asking To Get Your Speaker Kicked In

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#129 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Pgup 9

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#130 We Need A Poster That Says “Wine”

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#131 In The Shadow Of Every Yes Is A… Different Shadow?

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#132 My Gf Is A Teacher. This Sits On Her Desk And The Lack Of Punctuation Disturbs Me

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#133 This Door At My Dentist’s Office

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#134 Beer Coaster

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#135 I Made An Account Just To Post This Unforgivable De$ign Choice

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#136 This Sign

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#137 Lots Of Hope For Sure

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#138 The Design School I Graduated From Sent This Postcard Out

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#139 Give Up On Your Dreams

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#140 This Coat Rack

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#141 This Carpeted Bathroom

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50 Times People Encountered Such Over-Designed Things, They Just Had To Share

February 7, 2023

There’s good design. There’s bad design. And we can usually intuitively tell the two apart just by looking at it. But wait! There’s also ‘design design,’ a really weird category that straddles the line between quality aesthetics and truly awful taste. Some designers just don’t know when to stop designing their designy designs and go way overboard. Are we starting to sound redundant and over-complicated? Good, now you’re getting it!

The best (worst?) of these ‘designy designs’ end up being shared on the r/DesignDesign subreddit, an intriguing online community that both celebrates and criticizes these errr VeRy InTeReStInG aNd ArTiStIc ideas for products and furniture. We’ve collected some of the most bizarre and original pics to share with you, Pandas.

Scroll down, upvote the designs that really had an impact on you, and if you love what you see, consider becoming a member of the subreddit.

Bored Panda reached out to Matt Johnson, Ph.D., the host of the Consumer Psychology Blog and the Human Nature Blog, for a few insights on the importance of finding the right balance between the designer’s vision for their product, as well as what would appeal to consumers. He told us that, at its core, user experience is about empathy. Johnson is a professor of consumer psychology at Hult International Business School and Harvard University, and the author of ‘Branding that Means Business.’ Read on for our interview with him.

#1 Wall Outlets With Extension Cords Built Into The Wall

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#2 Stacked Seating At A Restaurant

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#3 Found On The Designp**n Frontpage

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We were interested to learn more about the balance between what a designer wants from their product and what consumers look for. We asked Professor Johnson about what can help designers maintain a more grounded, user-friendly perspective.

“Ultimately, good UX is an act of empathy. You have to filter your creative vision for the product through the lens of the consumer’s needs, unique preferences, and tendencies. This means creating a balance between your own aspirations for the product (e.g. what you think it could be), and how it will intuitively seem to the end user (how the user will actually be used),” he explained to Bored Panda.

“Practically speaking, by inviting the consumer into the design process and getting feedback along the product development journey, the end result is much more likely to strike this balance.” However, if there’s only poor communication, you might end up with a disconnect between the two. Something that Piterskii-Punk-Wall accurately showed in their comic right over here.

#4 Hidden Fire Extinguishers

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#5 A Nature Inspired Bathroom

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#6 Ok I Think I Found The Ultimate Decanter. This One Keeps Me Awake At Night

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Johnson, the host of the ‘Neuroscience Of’ blog, told Bored Panda that the best and most beloved products integrate both perspectives: that of the designer, as well as of the consumer.

“If the balance is tilted too far in the direction of the creator’s vision, as opposed to the user’s intuition and needs, it comes off too much as a standalone work of art, and not as a functional product,” he said.

“This feels immediately obvious to the consumer: it’s something that reflects an idea from a specific individual, but lacks the necessary translation to the broader world. In a word, it feels too much like ‘art,’” the professor told Bored Panda. He noted that this is perfectly fine and valuable in its own context. However, when it comes to the world of consumer products, there’s a necessity for this additional layer of consumer empathy.

#7 Drink The Rainbow

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#8 Imagine Going Through All The Trouble Of Publishing Just To See This

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#9 Another Silverware Set… Another Useless Spoon

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As we see it, there are two main issues at play here when we’re talking about designy designs, aka over-designed products. Both explain, at least in part, why some creative professionals go completely overboard.

The first is a question of theory vs. practice and how even the best-laid plans don’t necessarily translate into reality. The second is about the relationship between the designer and their (real or imagined) audience—aka the end-users and consumers.

You might have an utterly amazing idea for a product or piece of furniture in your mind. Maybe you’ve even sketched it out! But even though the concept looks amazing on paper, it might not be the best fit for consumers. Something that any creator would be terrified to learn only after launching the idea into the market.

#10 Door Knob Design That Gives You A Fish Eye View Of The Room Ahead

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#11 Possibly One Of The Worst Staircases I’ve Ever Seen

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#12 Holy Fking St

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Maybe what you’ve come up with is more akin to art and is radically impractical to use every single day. Or the item is incredibly complex and unintuitive to the average shopper on the highstreet: something that you might not realize because you’ve spent so long on the design, you know it like the back of your hand. It’s a case of design short-sightedness where the professional can’t see the forest for the trees.

Meanwhile, the professional in charge of designing the product might be completely disconnected from their intended consumers. This might happen due to a lack of information on buying trends or because of less-than-stellar communication between them and their customers. That means that the designer is essentially stuck inside a bubble with only their own ideas to consider, with very little (if any!) outside feedback.

#13 Swinging In The Conference Room

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#14 A Banana Slide That Trains Your Determination. If You Get Lost, Your Crotch Will Die

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#15 No Way This Can Go Wrong

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However, another possible explanation for this disconnect between designers and consumers can be attributed to a more human factor. Namely, arrogance. It’s perfectly fine, even praiseworthy, that you’re confident about your work and that you feel pride in what you’ve achieved. Unfortunately, this can sometimes overshadow the end goal of what’s being sold, namely, that people want to buy and use what you’re offering.

Perhaps the creator feels like they have far better taste than the would-be buyers. So they want to ‘enlighten the masses’ (or something equally as pompous). Here’s the thing, though. Even if it’s a well-intentioned idea to want to educate people about good taste, there are different ways to go about it.

To put it mildly, it’s not the best idea to go about bragging to everyone how much more educated and intelligent you are while poking fun at them for being tasteless. However, when you come from a place of humility and a genuine desire to help, others are more open to what you have to say.

#16 A Car Fender Bicycle

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#17 This Is The New University Building Of Freiburg That At The Same Time Blinds The Road Traffic

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#18 Apartments In Amsterdam

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At the same time, no matter how successful and well-received a designer’s work might have been in the past, it doesn’t guarantee that their next idea will be good. Multi-functional furniture might not have the mass appeal that they hope it will, meaning it’ll remain a niche product for very niche buyers.

Similarly, even if your lovingly-crafted set of cutlery is pleasant to look at, it might be utterly atrocious to eat with, so you’re left with a decorative piece that very few people actually like.

#19 Books And Bath

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#20 Injury Attorney’s Dream Staircase

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#21 Imagine What It Looks Like In Fall

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The r/DesignDesign subreddit was founded a few years ago, in mid-July of 2018. Since then, they’ve amassed a following of 120k redditors. The moderators running the whole show stress the fact that the pics shared by the members of the community have to be, at the same time, examples of good and awful design. There should be a balance between the two.

#22 Just No

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#23 Found On Fb… I Can Hear This Image

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#24 Just No

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Meanwhile, the mods also ask their members to avoid reposting other people’s photos too much. “Reposts are OK as long as the post hasn’t been submitted in 6 months or more than 3 times,” they set out the rules. That way, the content’s kept fresher and it helps avoid people farming attention just for the sake of attention.

#25 Let Me Just Find My Keys

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#26 Splash-Proof Urinals

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#27 This Hallway Must Have Looked Awesome On The Blueprints

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Broadly speaking, taste might be subjective (e.g. preferences for minimalism or maximalism), but there are many things that we can agree on that do and don’t make much sense. If a product is user-friendly, ergonomic, intuitive to use, and matches our expectations, then we can say that it’s an example of good design.

#28 Oh Yes, Reverse-Lamp

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#29 These Would Be Awful To Use

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#30 A Balcony Without Sun Or Fresh Air Is Just A People Shelf

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On the flip side, something that’s more like a puzzle that requires an IQ of 160 to figure out won’t get many smiles from the crowd (unless they bought it specifically because they love over-designed, over-complicated stuff). Put the user first and you can’t go wrong. Put your designs above them and you might end up in the grey zone where quality and awful taste meet.

#31 Does This Count?

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#32 This Fire Pit That Doubles As A Side Table When You Tip All The Ash On The Floor

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#33 For Me, The Juicy Salif Is The Pinnacle Of Design Design

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#34 Reinventing The Pint

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#35 Why? Just Why?

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#36 Thanks I Hate It

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#37 When You Want The Guarantee Of A Broken Neck From Your Staircase

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#38 Clocks

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#39 Because A Hat Would Be Far To Complicated

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#40 The Lucky Knot Bridge In China

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#41 This Sink. Spotted On A Facebook Ad

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#42 W Fart Free Water

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#43 A Bookshelf To Store Some Pebbles Or Something

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#44 This Luxurious Toilet

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#45 That Looks Comfortable

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#46 Love Designy Cumbersome Roundware

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#47 Dear God I Just Needed To Pee

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#48 A Maze Of Concentric Circles On The Back Of The Phone Fitting Its Earphones Perfectly

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#49 Saw This On Insta

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#50 Stock Market Bench

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50 Genius Pet Inventions You Didn’t Know You Needed To Be The Coolest Pet Owner

November 7, 2022

Pets enrich our lives with the most beautiful colors, allowing us to experience emotions we didn’t even know we carried within our hearts. Whether you refer to them as your best friend or your fur baby, the foundation for your relationship is unconditional love. And with that, you only want the best for your companion.

Luckily, there are plenty of ways to spoil them. To give you some fresh ideas, we at Bored Panda put together a list of brilliant inventions that seem to have been created by animal whisperers; from doggie stick libraries to space-saving cat towers, continue scrolling and check them out.

#1 My Wife Started Feeding A Stray Cat, But I’m Allergic, And We Can’t Take Her Into Our House. I Built The Cat Her Own House Instead. It’s Insulated And Has Electric Heating

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#2 This Vending Machine In Istanbul Dispenses Dog Food For Homeless Dogs When People Put Bottles In For Recycling

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#3 My 10-Year-Old Dog Likes To Sleep On My Legs. I Made Her This Out Of Some Of My Old Jeans For Her To Sleep On While I’m At Work

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#4 Stand For Strays Thailand, Has Launched Foldable Shelters Made Of Recycled Billboards For Stray Dogs

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#5 This Man Is Recycling Old Picnic Coolers Into Shelters For Stray Cats For Winter! How Very Cool Is This

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#6 My 11-Years-Old Dog Is Blind But Still Loves Hiking So I Got Her Doggles To Protect Her Eyes From Sticks

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#7 Made Her A Bridge To The Window She Always Stared At But Could Never Reach

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#8 My Uncle Built Little Stairs For His Little Dog

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#9 My Friend Remodeled The Ceiling Of The Shop For Cats And Now He Is Being Monitored All The Time

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#10 This Restaurant Not Only Welcomes Dogs, It Offers Dog Portions For Cheap

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#11 If They Don’t Go Out In Their Cat Strollers At Sunset To Watch The Birdies, I Never Hear The End Of It

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#12 Samsung Redesigned Its TV Boxes So They Can Be Up-Cycled Into A Cat House

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#13 Found A Little Free Library For Dogs

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#14 Husband Said He Was Going To Make A Bed Frame. I Thought It Was For Our New Mattress. It Was For The Cat

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#15 When Safety And Style Come Together Fabulously With Glowing Collar

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#16 I’m Lovin’ It

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#17 Keep Those Paws Safe This Summer

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#18 Otter, A Disabled Cat Whose Skull Did Not Form Properly, Wearing His Made-To-Measure Helmet

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#19 Good Boy Gets A Special Room All To Himself

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#20 Saw This Little Guy While Out For My Daily Walk

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#21 Dog Has A Condition That Makes It Hard To Get Food Down So He Eats In A Special High Chair

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#22 Noise-Cancelling Dog House That Can Keep Your Pup Calm During Fireworks And Thunderstorms (A Prototype By Ford, Using Technology Created For High-End Vehicles)

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#23 Free Vegetable Leaves For Pets In My Local Supermarket’s Produce Section

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#24 Made An Iron Throne For My Maine Coon. He Slipped Right Into The Role

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#25 My Ambulance Is Now Equipped With Pet Oxygen Masks

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#26 I Felt Bad For My Cat Not Being Able To See Out To Our Front Yard, So Together We Cut Him A Peephole In The Frosting

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#27 My Friend Has A Hammock For Their Cat

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#28 Cat Bedroom Is Completed. Bird TV Is On

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#29 When You Take A Drink From This Bubbler, The Excess Water Flows Into A Bowl For Your Dog

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#30 This Sofa Has A Cosy “Dog House” By The Side As Part Of The Armrest/ Side Table

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#31 A Coast Guard Dog Is Wearing A Cool Helmet And Goggles

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#32 I Made Tiny Pancakes And A Tiny Table For My Little Buddy

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#33 This Supermarket Has A Special Cart For You To Shop With Your Pet

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#34 In This Pet’s Water Bowl, A Paw Print Will Appear In It If The Water Has Been Sitting Around For Way Too Long

The pet bowl has roughened areas in its plastic base in the shape of a paw. When water has been sitting around for too long, the sludge aggregates around the roughened plastic area – and leads to a paw symbol appearing!

After washing the bowl, the paw symbol is not immediately obvious but can be seen once you tilt the bowl and let the light hit it from a suitable angle.

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#35 Would Absolutely Jump In The Water To Swim, But Refuses To Walk In The Rain Without A Coat

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#36 How To Solve Cat Typing Issue

#37 The Solution Of Keeping Your Cat Off Your Laptop

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#38 This Fence Has A Window For The Dog

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#39 My Space-Saving Cat Tower

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#40 My Brother And I Built A Custom Chinchilla Mansion

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#41 She Likes Being Petted Roughly With The Grooming Gloves

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#42 An Old TV Repurposed Into A Cat Bed For My Cat’s Birthday

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#43 This Is A Food Truck Made Specifically For Dog Food, Primarily Dog Frozen Yogurt

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#44 My Foster Cat Has Asthma And Uses An Inhaler Twice A Day

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#45 This Drinking Fountain For Dogs, That This Person, Built Into Their Front Walkway

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#46 Put My Fat Cat On A Diet And Bought A Feeder With A Timer. Now This Is How He Waits Patiently For Dinner

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#47 I Made A Cat Wall

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#48 My Aunt Got A Kayak For Her Dog

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#49 This IKEA Has A Dog Parking Station For You To Keep Your Pet While You Shop So It Won’t Succumb To The Heat While Waiting In Your Car

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#50 These Designers Created A Purrfect Bed For Cat Owners

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This Online Community Shares Pics Of Products That Make Its Members Say “I Need It” (50 Pics)

October 7, 2021

The subreddit r/INEEEEDIT has a pretty bold introduction. Its moderators call this online community the home to the coolest products on the internet. But once you start scrolling through its content, you realize it’s kinda accurate, too.

From cute and simple (a mop that looks like a dog) to intricate and rare (a 16th-century ring that turns into an astronomical sphere), the sub has a little bit of everything. And whether you’d actually use these items or not doesn’t even matter. You’d just love to have them.

Continue scrolling and check out some of the most upvoted posts on r/INEEEEDIT!

#1 16th Century Ring That Turns Into An Astronomical Sphere

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Even though the subreddit has grown quite a bit since its creation in 2017 and now unites 564K members, nobody on the mod team looks after it regularly. Nobody, except u/abrownn. But despite the time it takes to tidy up r/INEEEEDIT, the Reddit user found a few minutes to answer a few of our questions.

“Unconventional but utilitarian things or high-quality/craftsman-style items do the best here,” the moderator told Bored Panda and showed this straw, clock, and coffee table as prime examples.

“They are all things that already exist in other forms but they’re modified, unique, utilitarian, etc. Useless garbage items may get lots of upvotes because of the ‘cool factor’, but they’re usually eviscerated in the comments as they should be (overengineered, useless, dangerous, plastic crap, etc.).”

#2 This T Shirt

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#3 All The Hooks And Shelves You Need

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To learn more about design for another piece I did a few months ago, I contacted Nicole Phillips, who has been working in the design industry since 2005 and has a background in fine arts and advertising. Phillips specializes in logo design, branding, and package design for food & beverage, beauty, health, and interior design clients, and for each project, her work is unique and never linear.

“The design process requires research, experimentation, and even a bit of psychology,” Phillips then told Bored Panda. “When I feel frustrated with the process, I remind myself to take a step back, have fun and play. It’s those moments of play and experimentation that usually create the best results, but it’s those hours of research that help build the foundation for the final result.”

“My clients are not paying me for my time, they are paying me for my many years of experience, so if I am able to complete the design process in 5 hours rather than 5 weeks, this is a sign of my years of experience and knowledge, this is valuable,” she added.

#4 Skylight Reimagined

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#5 This Dice Roller

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#6 Julius Cesar Pencil Holder

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Trying to determine whether or not a particular design is good, many turn to Dieter Rams and his ’10 commandments.’ According to Rams, good design is innovative, makes a product useful, is aesthetic, makes a product understandable, is unobtrusive, is honest, is long-lasting, is thorough down to the last detail, is environmentally friendly, and involves as little design as possible.

Nicole Phillips agrees with the German design legend.

“Good design includes a good balance of function, form, and fun,” Phillips said. “The user shouldn’t have to try too hard to get what they need from the design. Good design isn’t just aesthetics, it should communicate well and push boundaries a bit. Good design solves problems.”

To paraphrase Don Draper from Mad Men, it’s simple but significant.

#7 This Yoda Bookend That Looks Like Yoda Is Holding The Books Up With The Force

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#8 Noise-Cancelling Dog House That Can Keep Your Pup Calm During Fireworks And Thunderstorms (A Prototype By Ford, Using Technology Created For High-End Vehicles)

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#9 These Cards

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Coming back to the sub, u/abrownn said its members aren’t really much of a community. “Posts that aren’t guerilla ads are rare which means there isn’t much r/INEEEEDIT culture to speak of, more broadly it’s plain ‘Reddit culture’ here, same with most big image-based subreddits.”

It’s not that easy to turn r/INEEEEDIT around, either. “The top mod sold his account and the subreddit several times and we’re currently held hostage by their account that’s still squatting but seemingly abandoned Reddit (it’s been almost 2 years with zero activity),” u/abrownn explained.

“After the mods ‘admonished’ them for doing so last time (they lied to the mods, we caught them soliciting the sale of the account several times on Discord and they threatened another mod who caught them doing so with a GIF of them firing a gun blindly on their property in real life), I’m the only one who checks in on the sub and cleans up the garbage, approves posts, etc. now, no other mod checks in. It’s a little stressful knowing that he could very well come back and boot us all again and sell the sub.”

However you feel about this online thriller, you have to admit that it’s quite impressive that a single person can curate all of this content and keep it so engaging.

#10 Awesome Black Out Curtains

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#11 Animal-Saving Escape Ramp For Pools. This Could Be Extremely Important For Any Animal That Could Drown In Someone’s Pool

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#12 I Think Planetary Chocolates Would Make A Great Christmas Gift

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#13 A “Book Nook” Alleyway

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#14 Home Theater Bunker

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#15 House Key

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#16 This Flash Drive That Shows How Full It Is

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#17 This Star Wars Fish Tank

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#18 Lord Of The Rings One Ring Firepit

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#19 These Dog-Themed Playing Cards

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#20 It Shows You What Colour Bin To Put Outside Your House

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#21 This Bed

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#22 A Mop That Looks Like One Of Those Dogs That Look Like A Mop

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#23 Nightmare Bed

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#24 A Charger That Sits Flat When Using So That You Don’t Bend And Break It

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#25 Rook Tower Pack-Away Chess Set

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#26 Eraser That “Transforms” Into Mount Fuji After Use

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#27 Alternative Slide To Stairs

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#28 Toothbrush Holder That Drains Into The Sink

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#29 These Loch Ness Monster Soup Ladles

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#30 This 3D Moon Lamp

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#31 I Need This Lazy Susan Fridge!

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#32 A Clock Clock

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#33 This Candle Which Makes A New Candle From Its Melted Wax

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#34 3-D Printed Faucet

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#35 This Purse

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#36 This Charging Chord Designed To Eliminate Unnecessary Slack

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#37 Sometimes The Simplest Ideas Are The Best Ones

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#38 This Wooden Robot Drinks Cabinet

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#39 Katana Earbuds

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#40 Office Swings

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#41 These Are Waterproof Socks

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#42 Adorable Penguin Egg Cooker

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#43 A Transparent Padlock To Learn How To Lockpick

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#44 Not Clean, Not Needing Washing Basket

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#45 This Inception Coffee Table

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#46 This Phone Throne

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#47 Remote Controlled Steampunk R2d2

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#48 Wooden Lamp That Looks Like It’s Burning

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#49 Radioactive Drop Nightlight

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#50 This Light

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Chicken Leg Socks Are A Thing And They Look Hilarious (19 Pics)

September 7, 2019

We’ve all heard the ‘why did the chicken cross the road’ jokes hundreds if not thousands of times. Well, now you can actually look like a chicken when you cross the street.

With Halloween fast approaching (it’s less than two months away!), people are already picking out the costumes they’re going to wear this year. Which is why TheFound created a pair of clucking impressive socks just for the occasion. It’s something for bird-lovers and fowl-admirers to wear at their upcoming Halloween galas.

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Why did the chicken cross the road?

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To get these awesome chicken socks!

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While I personally have never wanted to dress and look like poultry (my favorite animals are wolves, eagles, sea otters, and dragons), I’m sure that there are plenty of people out there who think chickens are cool.

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Because we’re on the topic of chicks, here are some fun and unexpected facts about them! Do you know how many chickens live in the world? Take a guess. Yeah, well done, you were pretty close. The Smithsonian Magazine states that there are 25 billion chickens worldwide. That’s just around three chickens for each person alive today. Which, when I put it that way, doesn’t sound like a lot at all. I’d name my chickens Huey, Dewey and Louie, what about you?

These socks make your legs look a chicken’s

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Boop!

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While we’re all used to thinking that chickens can’t fly, that’s not entirely true. They can fly high enough to get over a fence or to fly up a tree. Which is far more than I’ve achieved flapping my arms at the office just now.

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There are more times more chickens living on Earth than people

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Chickens are omnivores, just like people. Sure, they’ll eat seeds. But they’ll also eat insects, lizards, and rodents — in fact, its diet is very similar to the fearsome carnivorous ‘werewolf’ grasshopper mouse that howls at the moon and has a thirst for blood like a parched vampire.

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These socks are great for Halloween or Christmas parties

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Baby chickens are called chicks, while female chickens are known as pullets. When they’re old enough to lay eggs, we start calling them hens. Meanwhile, male chickens are known as roosters or cockerels.

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Also, did you know that female chicken biology is amazing? After hens become romantically involved with several roosters, they can choose which bird’s DNA they want to keep inside of them. This means they can always choose the strongest bird to father their fluffy offspring. What do you think of the chicken socks? Would you wear a pair yourself or gift them to a friend? What’s your favorite bird? Drop us a line down below.

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