Design follows us everywhere we go — from billboards, ads, and signs we see while driving down the road to pretty much everything in our kitchen cabinets. It’s an integral part of life that should make everything easier. If it’s any good. Because the sad truth is that very few design concepts are actually great. Far too many creators make glaringly obvious mistakes that stand out like a sore thumb, turning a blind eye to user experience, logic, aesthetics, and common sense as a whole.
But believe it or not, most of these cringe-worthy fails are not full-blown disasters of epic proportions, but rather… disappointing attempts that are almost begging to be poked fun at. So allow us to introduce you to one entertaining corner of Reddit, which seems to be still growing, called ‘Unfortunate Design’. This online community features an impressive collection of not exactly bad, but plain under par solutions that are bound to raise some eyebrows.
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Below, our team at Bored Panda has gathered a list of some of the most regrettable examples of “when the design is just not right,” so continue scrolling to check them all out! Be sure to upvote the pictures that made your inner critic all fired up and ready to go, and let us know in the comments which of these were your least favorite.
Psst! After you’re done, treat yourself to some more horrendous design madness from our previous posts here and here.
#1 The Amount Of Characters Makes It Seem Like Canada Is Funding Coronavirus
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#2 Very, Very Unlucky
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#3 3f Arts
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#4 Marketing Lesson
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#5 Was Lincoln Really The Best Example For A Movie Theater?
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#6 How Many More Times Will I Think The Bread Bag Is Suffering From Condensation?!
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#7 From “Love Dachshunds” – Promoted Ad On Reddit
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#8 The Best Flavor If You Are Shrek
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#9 Design Of A College Building
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#10 Oh No
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#11 What
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#12 This Wheelchair Logo
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#13 Menu Holders Suggesting A Questionable Diet
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#14 This Is Actually A Much Enjoyed Korean Drink
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#15 This Oddly Shaped Pool
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#16 Unfortunate Lettering
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#17 I’m Lost And You’re Not Helping
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#18 Seriously Tho
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#19 Gym’s Recent Renovation = Inspirational Quote Gone Wrong
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#20 Unfortunate Spelling In This Simple Diagram
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#21 Oh No
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#22 Spider-Man, What Are You Doing
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#23 When Your Company Name Becomes Slang For Vagina 20 Years After You Start It
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#24 On My Plane Ride Back Home
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#25 This Unfortunate Choice Of Name For A Nut Butter… They Didn’t Think This One Out
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#26 Sign At Universal Grad Bash Implies A Very Different Kind Of Party
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#27 Youtube’s Character Limit On TV App
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#28 Found This In Work ??
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#29 That’s Either A Sick Joke Or A Sales Ploy?
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#30 The Most Unfortunately Named Garden Tool ~ever~
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#31 Go Violence?
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#32 That’s A Tough Break On The Name Of Your Restaurant
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#33 My What?
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#34 I Always See This On The Way Home And I Just Think, ‘Damn, Thats An Unfortunate Name For A Funeral Service’
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#35 Was Browsing Through Snapchat When I Saw This Gem
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#36 This Book Abbreviating “Pumpkin Pie”
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#37 What An Interesting Name For A Parking Space
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#38 Hell
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#39 2meirl4meirl
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#40 Kpop Group Dreamcatcher’s Infortunate Merch Design
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#41 Interesting Way To Describe An Almond Joy
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#42 Someone Has A Sense Of Humor
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#43 Unfortunate Web Address
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#44 Scrolling Though Pintrust And Saw This In The Wild
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#45 Unfortunate Initials For The Company
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#46 (I Thunk This Belongs Here) At A Local Convention, It Seems Nobody Is Interested In Knife Crime Prevention
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#47 The Placement Of This Stoplight In Front Of This Development Entrance Is Quite Unfortunate
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#48 This Unfortunate Title That Found Its Way Into My Recommendeds
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#49 I Love—What?!
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#50 Ice Cream….with Bug Spray
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#51 I Would Rather Not Eat Some Crunchy Nut, Thanks
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#52 These Inserts For The Socks I Bought
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#53 They Didn’t Think Their Mask Image Placement Through. (Sorry For The Pixelation, It’s How It Was Sent To Me, Cropped For Privacy)
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#54 This ‘Ladies Room’ Thing With Two Specific Spots For Tacking It To A Door
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#55 Qooder (Pronounced Like Cooter, A Slang Term For Vagina)
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#56 Bad Taste Or Unfortunate Foreshadowing?
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#57 Very Unfortunate Company Name
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#58 Not A Good Name Choice
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#59 Too Soon Doritos
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#60 Fart
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#61 With Consent, Of Course!
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#62 This Unfortunate Design Of A Kangaroo And Its Baby In A Hotel In India
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Source: boredpanda.com