When a design doesn’t work, it often draws more attention to itself than when it works perfectly. A wobbly shopping cart, a flimsy potato peeler, a puzzling highway sign: These are common nuisances.

It's one of the great dilemmas for a designer in any field: you take on a project with a list of client directives that will surely result in a design disaster. Your client thinks he knows best, but ...

Did you know there is an entire subreddit dedicated just to bad designs?! It's called r/CrappyDesign, and not only are the images always good for a laugh, but so are the jokes. Here are some of the ...

The world is full of many, many, many AWFUL designs. In fact, bad designs happen so often that there's an entire subreddit dedicated to it! And while the images in r/CrappyDesign are always good for a ...

Badly drawn, derivative, and forgettable logos. Poorly designed websites and mobile apps. Formulaic products with no flair or originality. If you’re a business, bad design hurts — from uninspiring ...

Being a designer – whether it's interior, graphic, advertising, or public space – takes a lot of creativity and skill. Sure, lots of people are good at their jobs, but only a few might be geniuses.

A regular glass ketchup bottle is a poorly designed experience. To serve the ketchup you have to hold it at a 45-degree angle, tap it in a special place, insert a knife, and then it splatters not only ...

I tell my clients two things to frame organic search discussions around content and user experience: Search engines want to provide answers to their users in one click or less. If you design your ...

This Nov. 8, even if you manage to be registered in time and have the right identification, there is something else that could stop you from exercising your right to vote. The ballot. Specifically, ...

Refreshing an intensive care unit (ICU) -- making changes that update or improve a healthcare space without a full-scale renovation or demolition -- is an opportunity to improve the healing ...