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We've all heard about crappy design, something that turns a blind eye to user-friendliness, logic and common sense, aesthetics, and people in general. We’re talking billboards, TV ads, product packaging and product design, websites and apps, you name it.
The phenomenon of crappy design is that no matter how much our marketing strategies and advertising techniques have evolved in the past decades, it still finds its place in our daily lives. Check out some examples of crappy design in Bored Panda’s previous features here, here and here.
This time, we are taking a step further. Sometimes the design is so annoying, senseless and defunct that it seems like the brands are doing this deliberately or at least without shame. There’s even a whole corner of reddit dedicated to cases “when a*** design things.”
With a whopping 2.9 million members, the community pokes fun at the mentality that “nothing comes before profit, especially not the consumer.” Below, we wrapped up some of the evilest designs, so let us know what you think of them in the comments!
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#1
Ah Station Design
#2
Taxes
#3
Appstore For You
Bad design can be found everywhere, from the products we use every day to the websites we visit. Poorly designed products can be difficult to use, causing us to waste time and energy. They can also be dangerous, as faulty product or packaging designs can lead to accidents.
Meanwhile, websites with bad design can be hard to navigate, preventing us from finding the information we need. They can also be visually unappealing, making us less likely to return. At the same time app can have a very bad user experience which means people will be reluctant to use it. From confusing navigation to cluttered layouts, anyone can spot a very poor design.
#4
Brand New Protein Powder, Not Even Filled Half Whey
#5
Felt Like This Sub Would Appreciate This Statement
#6
Screw You Pinterest
Your content fills up and pollutes the search engine results yet people can’t even view your bulls**t user-submitted content without signing up for a damn account. Going to add to you to my Personal Blocklist so you don’t appear in my searches and waste my time anymore.
Jrog 2 years ago
Pinterest is a cesspool. I found some of my facebook photos had been uploaded on pinterest. A girl (wannabe maker/influencer/scammer) reuploaded them with her watermark and used them as example of her creations. Had to subscribe to the website to report the images, and after weeks of waiting... nothing happened. Zero answers, support or even an automated mail. In the meanwhile those images were stolen by others and popped around for a while on other websites, mostly on ads of promoting scams. Stopped uploading my work anywhere.
Jerk designs seem to take a step further than simply bad designs and come across as downright unethical and immoral. They snuck their way into the products and services we consume, and sometimes we don’t even notice them.
According to Danny Sapio, the lead product designer at Method and cofounder of Confettihabits.com, shrinkflation is a classic case of less product and more profit. “Companies use this tactic to discreetly sell less of a product at the same price that it was before.”
Moreover, Sapio argues that “companies can do this through labeling by displaying “FAMILY SIZE” or “PARTY SIZE” despite it being the same amount as the regular item.” For us, the unsuspecting shoppers, it’s something that’s really easy to miss.
#7
Trashy Company
#8
Hellofresh. If I Don’t Need To Call To Make Orders, I Shouldn’t Need To Call To Unsubscribe
#9
Cashing In On That *cough*
Another great example of jer design practices is the use of lethal enforcers. They require the user to take the action that the company wants before they can do what they intend to do.
“Lethal enforcers are essentially a way that companies gatekeep the decision making for users. Instead of giving users a free choice, the company decides for the individual the decision that should be made then makes that their only choice,” Sapio explained.
An example of a lethal enforcer is when you want to write a review on Yelp but have to download the brand’s app first. “Or when a company suppresses relevant search results to display sponsored products or content.”
#10
I Want My Money Back
#11
I Chose The Bottle Because A Tube Wasn't Enough! This Trojan Trickery Is An Abuse Coming From A Brand With Recognition
Hippopotamuses 2 years ago
Well here’s a company that cares FA about both its customers and the environment.
#12
Bought These Sticky Notes Cause I Thought The Gold Border Was Nice
Sapio also urges to look out for one of the trick questions known as the loaded questions. They take an advantage of our good nature. “We assume that we don’t need to read the entire question because we’ve already collected the information we need to answer it.”
#13
Natural Is A Trademark
#14
So It Was A Lie
#15
Really?
Another very shady design practice is throttling. “Throttling is when a company intentionally downgrades the service or product with the hopes that the customer upgrade. This is different than forced obsolescence because the product still works; it’s just much slower and shittier than it used to be,” the product designer explained.
It turns out that even giant brands like Apple have been found guilty of this. Apple has settled a class-action lawsuit over its practice of slowing down older iPhones, agreeing to pay up to $500 million to impacted consumers.
“Another example is ‘unlimited’ data providers that sneakily slow down internet speeds once they pass a certain threshold of data usage,” Sapio concluded.
#16
Youtuber Gets Every Single Video On His Channel Copyright Claimed Despite Having The Rights To All The Music In His Videos
#17
This Mcdonalds Menu
Mohsie Supposie 2 years ago
Just hold up the queue on purpose till the ad finishes, so you can choose what you want!
#18
Both Weigh 500g But The Green One Is In A 30% "Bigger Bag More To Share"
Adam Chang 2 years ago
Customer: it's a bigger bag with more chips. Company: no no, it's just a bigger bag
#19
Cup Design That Makes The Drink Look Like It Has Actual Fruit
#20
Disney Leaves The Inside Of Their $6 Icecream Hollow
#21
The Sticker Was A Lie
#22
Amazon Prime Video Doesn't Tell You If A Show Is Unavailable In Your Country Until After You Subscribe To Amazon Prime
#23
This Design Pisses Me Off Every Single Day
#24
Unremovable Ads On My $2,500 Samsung Smart TV
#25
Spending $175 On A Textbook Only To Receive A 2 Inch Stack Of Unbound Papers. Binder Sold Separately!
#26
Dislikes Helped You Know If A Video Was A Scam, Misleading Or Had False Information
Hippopotamuses 2 years ago (edited)
Read: We intend to continue to host questionable content as long as it generates revenue for us, and no, we’re not going be transparent about it, because that will obviously also affect our revenue.
#27
Literal Hell For Budget Flyers - Standing Seats
#28
Hey This Hotel Room Is Only $99 A Night, Great Deal!!!
Mohsie Supposie 2 years ago
They should have just said the hotel is FREE, then charge the $99 as a booking fee or something. Who wouldn't like a FREE hotel, eh?
#29
They Replaced Half The Mirrors In My Local Shopping Mall's Bathroom With Advertising Boards!
#30
Heard We Are Having A Rigged Democracy Binge
#31
The Fact That You Can't Uninstall Facebook On Certain Phones
#32
They Decided To Completely Cover Their Tenants' Windows With Ads Because Who Needs Natural Light And Fresh Air?
#33
My Work Place’s ‘Low Plastic, Recyclable Eco-Pens’ Have A Secret At Their Core
#34
My Age Preferences Are There For A Reason, Tinder
#35
Keurig Sensor Blocks Your Brew Unless It's "K-Cup Compatible", Aka Has Scannable Foil. Slap On An Old Foil To A 3rd Party Cup And Suddenly No Issue
#36
Such A Great Deal!
#37
My Chinese "Smart TV" Plays A 15 Second Chevrolete Commercial Every Time I Turn It On
#38
Perfectly Fine Lighters With No Way To Refuel Them... Planned Obsolescence Is Asshole Design And Terrible For The Environment
#39
As**ole School System Charging Kids For Lunch And Then Blaming Parents
#40
My Printer Just Did A Firmware Update And No Longer Recognizes My Third-Party Ink
#41
Shrinkflation Used By Cadbury To Literally Cut Corners. The Bottom Chocolate Bar Is More Than 8 Percent Smaller
That other Panda 2 years ago
Mess with my sandwich, mess with my glue… BUT DO NOT MESS WITH MY CHOCOLATE
#42
5$ Pen Size vs. Ink
#43
Designed For Dissuading The Homeless. Literally Just Uncomfortable For Everyone Else
That other Panda 2 years ago
Why do people do this stuff? Like, if you dont want people to sleep on the streets, there are infinitely better things to do
#44
8% Alcohol Or
#45
Food Delivery Service That Tells You “Someone Is At The Door! Okay We Lied”
#46
I Wish My Professors Graded Like This
Down With Agent Hedgehog! 2 years ago
This is extremely insulting to call Covid the ‘Wuhan Virus’. 武汉没啥毛病。
Bender Bending Rodríguez 2 years ago
Don't worry reTHUGlicons are working on it.
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Daniel LaDue 2 years ago
Bro.... Trump needs to be coddled so bad. I still get ads asking if I'd vote for him again, or wish him a happy birthday. Needy f*cking child.
Labellesouris 2 years ago
Think of the kind of lectures you'd have to sit through though...lol...
Vyxsin (she/her) 2 years ago
Speaking of false advertising... Can we point out that Fox News is technically an entertainment channel and nothing they broadcast is required to be actually factual news, simply their commentators perception of the facts. It's a brand name.
Voxxy 2 years ago
Yup they argued in c9urt that reasonable people wouldn't beleive their sh*t commentary
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An Unpopular Opinion. 2 years ago
I hate to even wanna seen like I support really any news channel, but we sure this isn't edited? Surely they wouldn't be that stupid / unfair
Michael Largey 2 years ago
I taught at a school where the students evaluated their teacher's characteristics at the end of the course with ratings ranging from poor to good. The principal kept getting pressured to be rated by the faculty and kept putting it off year after year. Finally his hand was forced somehow, but the most negative choice had been removed. We managed to express our disdain for him in our written comments. Shortly afterward, he ended all ratings for everybody. I always described him in three words: imposter, liar, coward. Which brings us back to Donald Trump.
Den Ver 2 years ago (edited)
My Sympathies. I had to put up with this BS - (14yo "students" evaluating teachers). Unfortunately, the faculty never got to eval. the admin. I put 99% of admin. in the category of 'imposters', since they have almost no teaching experience and their #1 job is Public Relations. -- PR should never be able to influence quality control! ... Sometimes I go to ... https://twitter.com/rad_is_awesome ... to remind myself this is a National Problem.
Load More Replies... FactcheckerGeneral 2 years ago (edited)
Reminds me of a routine from I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue: "We sent out thousands of forms asking our listeners whether they rated us 'excellent', 'very good', or merely 'well above average'. The reply we got back was from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales. She'd ticked the box marked 'poor'. And also the boxes marked 'very poor', 'unbelievably poor', 'words begin to fail me as to quite how poor' and 'buttock-clenchingly p!ss-poor'. Mrs Trellis had sent us back the wrong form, so if there's anyone at Virgin Rail who'd like to come and collect it..."
Ryan Michaud 2 years ago
I RATE IT................... VERY GREAT. AHA I outsmarted your system puny humans.
Tanner Nelson 2 years ago
No more biased news. Shut down fox, shut down NY times. Make a new one.
Remi (He/Him) 2 years ago
Please let this be a parody... I knew Fox was full of it, but this can't be a real screen cap, right? Right????
Shelby Minchew 2 years ago
Fox, Fox, Fox. I wish I could say I was surprised. I get you had to use small words considering your audience but come on!
Analee Frolic 2 years ago
And thus fascism reveals itself, to the notice of pretty much no one.
Mama Penguin 2 years ago
I thought it was a North Korean news station for a second. Oh wait, same s**t just different country.
Alicia GriffonLady 2 years ago
Complete opposite of above? As brainwashed as my dad is, i'm afraid to look at faux news at all.
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Leah Ma 2 years ago
Lou Dobbs is nuts. I got him to answer me on TV once though. I kept sending him emails saying that China was not a communist country--because it isn't! Communism is an economic system which China tried under Mao and failed at miserably! They even had a name for it--The Iron Rice Bowl! China now has a capitalist economic system and a one party dictatorship as a governing system. So I kept sending him emails saying this. Some people just like to throw around the word COMMUNIST as a big bad scare word! Dobbs is one of these. Finally, years ago, on his show at the time, he turns slowly to the TV and says, "And China IS a Communist nation!" BS, Dobbs! You're an economist! You know better than that!
Mike Weber 2 years ago
What you're not seeing is the rest of the choices or this was taken out of context. The lengths some will go to smear the least biased news channel... 🙄
Dorothy Cloud 2 years ago
Really!!! We don't even get that for Biden! We just have to suck it up.
April Morris 2 years ago
What do you export from Fox, a.k.a. State News? Russia is doing the same thing. No difference.
Shabbir Yamani 2 years ago
FOX, thoughtful Name for a news reporting company, expected to be honest and genuine... They were frauds wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy before TRUMP came around. I wonder who even bothered with objecting to the name FOX? not that sly now are we...
Stephanie Barr 2 years ago
Here in Texas (I can't speak for elsewhere) a lot of the political surveys are like this, heavily skewed to always provide the answer the GOP in charge want. So I stopped answering them. Bet I'm not the only Democrat and I suspect that's going to lead to some misleading poll numbers that won't properly predict how we feel come November.
Alicia GriffonLady 2 years ago
I tend to answer with a letter about what i really think of them instead of the poll. I just hope they don't use my envelope to stuff what they want into somehow...
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Kallen Kneeland 2 years ago
So many polls are set up like this - no way to actually express your true opinion (tho' sad to say, I'm betting folks that were watching Lou Dobbs pretty much agreed with the options offered to them).
Manny_Flawz 2 years ago
The Chinese say that the virus was manufactured at Fort Detrick in Maryland.
AmandaKay 2 years ago
I get polled like this every year in Wisconsin by the Republican party. Are you very likely, somewhat likely or absolutely voting for Ron Johnson, Robin Vos, Scott Walker etc & the answer is always to hang up. Their internal polling is f-ed up.
Keahu Maalimanu'u 2 years ago
Hey, he did better than Sleepy Joe even when The Demonrats did not work the whole time
Someone Important 2 years ago
Only a CNN watching dufus thinks the ongoing Biden Dumpster fire is a great thing
Sarah K 2 years ago
This is amazing though. Can we just start laughing at it instead of getting mad? It's amazingly, wonderfully biased and hilarious. I love it.
Bender Bending Rodríguez 2 years ago
We would be laughing if it was in a comedy show, for real life this terrifies me.
Load More Replies... Panda Who Mumbles, Constantly 2 years ago
"Wuhan virus", I mean, I'm surprised the Faux News didn't go with the name their "esteemed" leader used... Thank heavens for small favours, eh?
Potato Chimps 2 years ago
Please vote: Awesome!, Awesome!!, More Awesome and Amazing, Even More Awesomer and Amazinger, So Great I Can't Even Think of the Awesome Words, !!!!!, Other
Someone Important 2 years ago
Look at the CNN watching cretins who can't support themselves yet ranting and raving like they have an IQ over 40
#47
Press Dismiss To Update This Printer
#48
Facebook, I'm Beyond Words
#49
Tenerife Airport Shows Ads On The Flight Information Screens Every Few Minutes (For At Least A Minute), So If You're Unlucky You Have To Wait Before Knowing Which Gate To Go To
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What do you think ?
Nathaniel 2 years ago
Can we talk about the horrific design behind the downvoting system on this site? Down votes are not dislikes, downvotes get you suspended and then banned. And there are anonymous trolls who follow popular Pandas and downvote comments for no rhyme or reason.
Crouching hippo hidden panda 2 years ago
I got banned for a day last week, I backtracked my comments and I hadn’t written anything polarizing or remotely vulgar/offensive etc. i still for the life of me can’t figure out why I was banned and I tried to ask BP for clarification but zilch
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Elliot Fowler 2 years ago
Screw this. This fight against greedy capitalistic demons will never be won if our only hope is waiting for gov official to protect the people. We need to bring back the guillotine and go all french on these bastards.
Pirates of Zen Pants 2 years ago
Bad sirs, you sit on a throne of lies. Thirty percent more lies, to be exact.
Alan Green 2 years ago
Can we add Amazon delivery times to the list? (or did I miss it?) So many times I see "Buy within the next 3 hours to receive it TODAY" So i buy it as i really need it quick only to see. . "Estimated delivery time: TOMORROW". . . Why Amazon? WHY?
Madeleine 2 years ago
The main problem is that it isn’t sustainable to expect people who are poorly paid and poorly treated to bring you whatever you want on the same day you order it.
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Uber Mensch 2 years ago
1> It took a site 30 seconds to start sending spam to my email, but they want up to 10 days to make it STOP? 2> "... and other natural flavors" - wtf?
Gary Adams 2 years ago
One of my favorites was the label on a Mr Goodbar. It proudly proclaimed, "Now! More peanuts!" I suppose it wouldn't help sales if they advertised it as having less chocolate.
An Unpopular Opinion. 2 years ago
Dumb design: Disney Plus doesn't even have all the Disney / marvel movies and it makes me mad 'cause like??? Why does it cost that much then, if you're gonna make people pay to watch the movies that aren't there too- Signed, a girl who got bored and thought she'd watch Spider-Man, the old ones OR into the spider verse and none were there
Will Cable 2 years ago
Can we include Youtube thumbnails for videos that do not feature in any form whatsoever within the video.
Bouche Clay 2 years ago
I can see why you'd consider it humiliating, but all I thought was how impressed I was that you were willing to give the inside view. Super bad s**t can happen to anyone, and we only think we have control of our situations.
Model Fact 2 years ago
Stellar journalism as always: 1) Report on what someone said 2) Report on what a bunch of nobodies ("Twitter user Katy") said about it. 3) Publish it under the assumption that it qualifies as journalism.
Gavin Johnson 2 years ago
And yet with a quick scroll through you’ll easily find Japanese companies, U.K. companies, Chinese, American, and a few that have no clear country. If the agenda is attacking the U.S. then they are certainly mixing plenty of other nations in there. As for anti-capitalism that’s because these issues relate to being conned by companies, perhaps if they put customers first rather than profit they’d represent capitalism a bit better? It MAY be that capitalism isn’t as good as it could be? It MAY be that you are sucking a bit too much from the capitalism teat? Defending the big business who’ll strip all of your assets is a little hmmm sheepish ain’t it?
Load More Replies... Nathaniel 2 years ago
Can we talk about the horrific design behind the downvoting system on this site? Down votes are not dislikes, downvotes get you suspended and then banned. And there are anonymous trolls who follow popular Pandas and downvote comments for no rhyme or reason.
Crouching hippo hidden panda 2 years ago
I got banned for a day last week, I backtracked my comments and I hadn’t written anything polarizing or remotely vulgar/offensive etc. i still for the life of me can’t figure out why I was banned and I tried to ask BP for clarification but zilch
Load More Replies... Elliot Fowler 2 years ago
Screw this. This fight against greedy capitalistic demons will never be won if our only hope is waiting for gov official to protect the people. We need to bring back the guillotine and go all french on these bastards.
Pirates of Zen Pants 2 years ago
Bad sirs, you sit on a throne of lies. Thirty percent more lies, to be exact.
Alan Green 2 years ago
Can we add Amazon delivery times to the list? (or did I miss it?) So many times I see "Buy within the next 3 hours to receive it TODAY" So i buy it as i really need it quick only to see. . "Estimated delivery time: TOMORROW". . . Why Amazon? WHY?
Madeleine 2 years ago
The main problem is that it isn’t sustainable to expect people who are poorly paid and poorly treated to bring you whatever you want on the same day you order it.
Load More Replies... Uber Mensch 2 years ago
1> It took a site 30 seconds to start sending spam to my email, but they want up to 10 days to make it STOP? 2> "... and other natural flavors" - wtf?
Gary Adams 2 years ago
One of my favorites was the label on a Mr Goodbar. It proudly proclaimed, "Now! More peanuts!" I suppose it wouldn't help sales if they advertised it as having less chocolate.
An Unpopular Opinion. 2 years ago
Dumb design: Disney Plus doesn't even have all the Disney / marvel movies and it makes me mad 'cause like??? Why does it cost that much then, if you're gonna make people pay to watch the movies that aren't there too- Signed, a girl who got bored and thought she'd watch Spider-Man, the old ones OR into the spider verse and none were there
Will Cable 2 years ago
Can we include Youtube thumbnails for videos that do not feature in any form whatsoever within the video.
Bouche Clay 2 years ago
I can see why you'd consider it humiliating, but all I thought was how impressed I was that you were willing to give the inside view. Super bad s**t can happen to anyone, and we only think we have control of our situations.
Model Fact 2 years ago
Stellar journalism as always: 1) Report on what someone said 2) Report on what a bunch of nobodies ("Twitter user Katy") said about it. 3) Publish it under the assumption that it qualifies as journalism.
Gavin Johnson 2 years ago
And yet with a quick scroll through you’ll easily find Japanese companies, U.K. companies, Chinese, American, and a few that have no clear country. If the agenda is attacking the U.S. then they are certainly mixing plenty of other nations in there. As for anti-capitalism that’s because these issues relate to being conned by companies, perhaps if they put customers first rather than profit they’d represent capitalism a bit better? It MAY be that capitalism isn’t as good as it could be? It MAY be that you are sucking a bit too much from the capitalism teat? Defending the big business who’ll strip all of your assets is a little hmmm sheepish ain’t it?
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