27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (December 15, 2024)

JR Atkinson • Writer and Editor

Dec 15, 2024 8:00 AM EST

Have you ever pushed a pull door on accident? I certainly have. Sometimes, you can't be blamed. The font is too small, the placement is too weird, and it is not an eye-grabbing color. This is a classic design fail. Someone was supposed to design something you could use, and they didn't do a good enough job. This happens all the time, in fact, it's what makes up most of this list. But sometimes human error is real. Sometimes our little caveman brains are too dumb to understand what's right in front of us.

This is like when you spend so much time fiddling with the shower trying to get it hot and then you realize it's turned to the blue side, and the red side is the other one. And that's on us. But this collection is about celebrating the former. Designs that just didn't do what they set out to do. And they make us laugh.