Design bloopers

Discussion articles

  • Critic to creator: recognising good design
    All too often, people in our field focus so much on pointing out the egregious interaction design mistakes that make it to market, we forget to pay attention to the good design that exists.

Blooper collections

  • Abandoned cart
    This site hosts a collection of gems of customer service from hell: computer-mediated rudeness, dubious intentions and negative customer service.

  • A closer look
    A column by Lou Rosenfeld providing critical reviews of corporate websites. No longer updated.

  • Bad human factors designs
    Michael Darnell shares a range of design problems from non-computing domains.

  • Boycott bad designs
    Boycott bad designs aims to create design awareness and invites designers and users to help fight the battle for usability by reporting examples of bad and good design.

  • Design not found
    A collection of real-world examples of good and bad contingency design.

  • Hall of technical documentation weirdness
    On this page, I list wacky, bizarre, surreal and otherwise strange examples of technical documentation, particularly illustration.

  • The 37 Better Project
    Complaining is easy. Offering solutions is the tough part. When we have an idea about how to improve a specific web site or concept, we post our pro bono "better" design comp here.

  • Thisisbroken.com
    Annoyed or frustrated by something that is poorly designed? Looking for some examples of bad design? Thisisbroken.com is a collection of stories and photos of things that don't work well or make sense, including, but not limited to, poorly-designed websites.

  • Web pages that suck
    Vincent Flanders' site aims to help people design effective and aesthetically pleasing web pages. His methodology is somewhat different: if someone is exposed to bad web page design they'll be less likely to use these techniques in the pages they create.