design fail

We're all prone to moments of failure that came out of nothing but the purest of intentions. It'd sure be nice if our lofty expectations always lined up with reality, but alas, we're not so lucky. The universe just loves to humble us right when our egos are getting nice and inflated. 

For just about any project, it can help to get a second set of eyes on the thing. Y'know, just in case there was some small, dumb design fail you could have overlooked. Something like making an entire basketball court out of sand, or having a big giant staircase that goes nowhere. There are a lot of wonderful design fails out there that could have been avoided.

Everyone wants to leave work early, but sometimes it takes a few design fails to get there. Ill conceived products, idiotic font choices, and some less-than-mastery of photoshop get people into some weird situations. Adding to that, the pesky thing with reality is that sometimes things don't fit where you want them to. Enough "not my job" moments of failure have proven that.

In a world where people are constantly asked to make new things, some of those things are not going to work out exactly as planned. That means we get some design fails that were someone's one job. Sometimes it's an accidentally filthy sign, sometimes it's a toilet that drains to nowhere. There are infinite ways to end up with design failures that don't quite cut it.

To be clear, the gameplay itself didn't warrant all the dislikes, but a very small design fail gave this game developer a big shock. It should provide at least a little peace of mind to find out that you didn't create something as universally hated as you thought. For some game related humor, here are some gaming memes.

Designing stuff is hard, and it's conducive to all kinds of design fails. If it's a sign, you have to check for embarrassing spelling mistakes. If it's a building, you have to make sure there aren't any pipes going straight through any staircases. People are pretty good at their jobs in general, but there are still a lot of impressively unprofessional "not my job" moments.

Hindsight is 20/20. These design fails are the embodiment of poor decisions that could've used a little more thought. 

If you've felt like you've done a bad job with something before, don't feel bad, cause someone has most likely done worse. You probably didn't include an inconspicuous "shart" in a sign, and you probably haven't buried a fire hydrant in cement. There are too many impressively unprofessional "not my job" moments and sloppy design fails out there to even compete.

Work in any field long enough and you'll see your fair share of wonderfully unprofessional "not my job" moments. There's slides that go right off buildings, misspelled signs and extremely lazy line painting, just to name a few. It makes you feel good about yourself to see people's majestically incompetent "not my job" moments.

We're not exactly in the shirt business, but some of these clothing decisions seem like they could have been prevented. For similar stuff, here are some classic translation fails that made their way onto shirts and other things. And here are some more design failures that need some help.

Cursed toilets have a knack for making our insides squirm. Usually, one doesn't see a picture of a toilet set up so that it's facing a lecture hall. Usually, one doesn't see a toilet through the thin slit window frame of a wooden door. Usually, one doesn't see a toilet installed within some sort of tiled armchair contraption. But here we are. 

No matter how you slice it, there will always be people and things failing at their one job. And we're glad that people's constant design fails give us a world full of shirts, signs and products featuring nonsensical ramblings and accidental filthy creepiness .

People are asked to make stuff all the time, and sometimes there's more stress that something gets done than if it gets done well. That can lead to some pretty dumb design fails that didn't go as planned. Every day someone does a bad job, and every day there are more design failures that didn't work out.

As long as people keep making things, the world will have more and more stupid design failures that need some help. We have no way of knowing if these folks were trying their best, but however hard they tried, their attempts hit the ground with the sound of failure.

Stuff lie this makes us think we'd be pretty good at designing signs and clothes. Maybe it's harder to do well without ending up with stupid design failure? The fact remains, the world is completely filled up with really not good signs and designs, and it seems like a whole lotta people out there aren't doing their job.