28 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (August 11, 2024)

JR Atkinson • Writer and Editor

Aug 11, 2024 9:00 AM EDT

Do you ever see something in the world that you just have to fix? Maybe you've spotted a crooked picture frame and had to put it back so it's even. Maybe you've been in a restaurant bathroom and noticed the toilet paper roll was put on upside-down (everyone knows it's over, not under, unless you have an overactive cat). Or maybe you've seen someone's tag sticking out and couldn't resist flipping back inside for them. This might be a symptom of control freakism. And it's okay, you're in good company. The world needs people like us or else everything will be crooked and nothing will make sense.

But sometimes we need to learn to just sit back and enjoy the chaos, because that's what the world is made up of, after all. We're never going to stop that train. We can start with this list of design fails, and resolve to just laugh at them, not try to fix them.