27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (September 14, 2025)

Design is all around us. It's in everything from our pencils to our laptops to our apartments to our cities. Everything had to be designed carefully. Everything we touch, everything we see, and everything we interact with. The best designs become invisible. We take them for granted. We never think that a pencil could be anything other than what it is. We just accept the fact that televisions are rectangles and not, I don't know, circles. We've gotten so comfortable with chairs having four legs. 

But somebody somewhere at some time had to make that decision for us. And we've inherited it, and it's become invisible. But sometimes designs stick out. Really striking ones do. Like when you go to somebody's apartment and you didn't realize that furniture could be set up that way, and it blows your mind, and you go home to rearrange your furniture. Or when you see a really beautiful lamp at the MoMA design store. But sometimes bad designs stick out too. They stick out like a sore thumb, revealing their imperfections to us all. 

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