'Who even designs these?': 20+ Design flops

Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor

Feb 19, 2024 5:00 PM EST

The difference between good design and poor design is in the eye of the beholder. For example, let's say you want a staircase in your newly built home. How hard could that be to execute? It's probably pretty straightforward, unless you want something fancy. Maybe you're a wealthy multi-millionaire with money to burn and a desire to impress your artsy friends. Then perhaps you give your designers some artistic leeway.

It's shocking how many interestingly designed staircases are out there in the world. I'm fascinated by the staircase of stone (see #10). It's a regular-looking wooden staircase covered in smooth stones like you'd find near a lake. Not just one or two rocks, but dozens cover this staircase, leaving a single winding pathway down. There are no railings. If you fall, that's on you, buddy! I wonder if the rocks are glued down, or if a swift kick could turn one into a projectile. It just seems like such a bad idea… but someone thought it up and constructed it, and we're here to witness their design flop in all its glory.

Check out these intriguing designs, then read this dude's "angry email" to HR after the company's CEO took away remote work privileges out of nowhere.

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via u/OhoBenderez
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Silverware for those who eat soup 1/8 of a teaspoon at a time

via u/elrolo123
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via u/seoulbandit84
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via u/2DHypercube
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This sink is pretty but odd... and does it even work?

via u/[deleted]
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via u/Tectix
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This handrail is so squiggly!

via u/ekkki
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All it would take is one slip to send 300 books crashing into a tub of water

via u/hannahwith
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Imagine trying to walk on these in the dark...RIP to your ankles

via u/CaptainCaptain17
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I'm curious to know what the purpose of this staircase is

via u/12welveCreations
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You try to eat soup with the spoon---you scald your lip on the spoon and manage to drink nothing at all

via u/Used_envelopes
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Pearl ring but make it painful

via u/ffrsh
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via u/Grown_A**_Kid
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The WHAT now?

via u/mbendy1997
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via u/shuttervelocity
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Hmm

via u/xRemaining
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Problem solving?

via u/thisisnacho

Doesn't this imply that when the door is shut, you can see through the hole left by the door?
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My eyes!

via u/mastermithi29
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Tumbling down these would end a person

via u/squid50s
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I see their vision, but the model won't, because the sun is still in her eyes

via u/echis