27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (October 20, 2024)

JR Atkinson • Writer and Editor

Oct 20, 2024 9:00 AM EDT

Sometimes a design is so baffling that it defies human logic. "How, on this green Earth, did you decide to do that, take a step back, look at it, and decide it was okay to put it in front of humans?" You think. "Surely there is some governing force of order that commands us, surely there is something innate in us that wants to resist chaos and all its incarnations," You wonder. These images are here to provide a resounding answer: "No." Not everything makes sense. Not everything even resembles something that might make sense.

Some things cannot be explained by the tools of reason or logic. Some things are wrought by the hand of a chaotic spirit. Some things will never be right. But while we could raise our fists at the heavens and rage against it, it's more fun to wallow around in the chaos like a pig in mud. This is what we come here to do.