50 Jerk Design Examples Shared On This Online Group

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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50 Jerk Design Examples Shared On This Online Group

Ah Station Design

Taxes

Appstore For You

Brand New Protein Powder, Not Even Filled Half Whey

Felt Like This Sub Would Appreciate This Statement

Screw You Pinterest

Trashy Company

Hellofresh. If I Don’t Need To Call To Make Orders, I Shouldn’t Need To Call To Unsubscribe

Cashing In On That *cough*

I Want My Money Back

I Chose The Bottle Because A Tube Wasn't Enough! This Trojan Trickery Is An Abuse Coming From A Brand With Recognition

Bought These Sticky Notes Cause I Thought The Gold Border Was Nice

Natural Is A Trademark

So It Was A Lie

Really?

Youtuber Gets Every Single Video On His Channel Copyright Claimed Despite Having The Rights To All The Music In His Videos

This Mcdonalds Menu

Both Weigh 500g But The Green One Is In A 30% "Bigger Bag More To Share"

Cup Design That Makes The Drink Look Like It Has Actual Fruit

Disney Leaves The Inside Of Their $6 Icecream Hollow

The Sticker Was A Lie

Amazon Prime Video Doesn't Tell You If A Show Is Unavailable In Your Country Until After You Subscribe To Amazon Prime

This Design Pisses Me Off Every Single Day

Unremovable Ads On My $2,500 Samsung Smart TV

Spending $175 On A Textbook Only To Receive A 2 Inch Stack Of Unbound Papers. Binder Sold Separately!

Dislikes Helped You Know If A Video Was A Scam, Misleading Or Had False Information

Literal Hell For Budget Flyers - Standing Seats

Hey This Hotel Room Is Only $99 A Night, Great Deal!!!

They Replaced Half The Mirrors In My Local Shopping Mall's Bathroom With Advertising Boards!

Heard We Are Having A Rigged Democracy Binge

The Fact That You Can't Uninstall Facebook On Certain Phones

They Decided To Completely Cover Their Tenants' Windows With Ads Because Who Needs Natural Light And Fresh Air?

My Work Place’s ‘Low Plastic, Recyclable Eco-Pens’ Have A Secret At Their Core

My Age Preferences Are There For A Reason, Tinder

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

Such A Great Deal!

My Chinese "Smart TV" Plays A 15 Second Chevrolete Commercial Every Time I Turn It On

Perfectly Fine Lighters With No Way To Refuel Them... Planned Obsolescence Is Asshole Design And Terrible For The Environment

As**ole School System Charging Kids For Lunch And Then Blaming Parents

My Printer Just Did A Firmware Update And No Longer Recognizes My Third-Party Ink

Shrinkflation Used By Cadbury To Literally Cut Corners. The Bottom Chocolate Bar Is More Than 8 Percent Smaller

5$ Pen Size vs. Ink

Designed For Dissuading The Homeless. Literally Just Uncomfortable For Everyone Else

8% Alcohol Or

Food Delivery Service That Tells You “Someone Is At The Door! Okay We Lied”

I Wish My Professors Graded Like This

Press Dismiss To Update This Printer

Facebook, I'm Beyond Words

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

F**k You Vegas

Makes Me Want To Cancel Even Harder

I Love Ads On My £250 Console That I Continue To Pay £6 A Month To Play On

New Instagram "Feature"

I Would Like To Thank Suave For Increasing The Size Of Their Bottle By -17%

They Knew What They Were Doing. It Was Perfectly Placed In The Box

By Opening The Envelope For The License Agreement, You Agree To It

My $2,500 TV Has "Sponsored Content" Built Into The Menu

Wanted To Cancel My Subscription... Now I Have To Talk To Someone

My $200 Textbook Won’t Let Me Copy Paste More Then 84 Words To Make A Study Guide

Price Was $5.76. Can Only Pay With Quarters

Sony's $330 Headphones Doesn’t Work With A Ps4

Chipotle Goes All-Out Advertising That For The Next Week Delivery Is Free, And Then Casually Makes The Delivery Menu Priced Higher Than The Regular One

These Bluetooth Headphones Have To Be Permanently Plugged In To Provide Power

Apple’s Proprietary USB A Extension Cable

The $20 Toilet Paper My Auntie Bought (On The Right) On Amazon Compared To A Normal Roll (On The Left)

Powerade Is Using Shrinkflation By Replacing Their 32oz Drinks With 28oz And Stores Are Charging The Same Amount

Youtube Lets You Purchase A Movie, But Still Age Blocks You

Packaging That Tricks You

Can We All Agree Having To Pay For A Human Necessity Is A Major As**ole Design?

2k19 Is A Retail 60$ Game. They Put Non Skippable Ads In From Another Company

Apple Using Different Wallpapers And Trying To Make Us Believe The Pro And The Pro Max Has No "Notch" Compared To The Base Model

You Can't Play Doom I And II Offline On Switch Without Creating A Bethesda Account

They Took Away The In-Store Signage To Force You To Download Their App

Games

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Liucija Adomaite

Mindaugas Balčiauskas

Mindaugas Balčiauskas

Cashing In On That cough