People are constantly making new things, and it seems like we're burdened with making every single mistake before getting things done the right way. It leads to some stupid oversights and design fails that were someone's one job. If you want to feel good at your own job, check out some stupid design fails that need some help.
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There are a lot of reasons for failure at someone's one job. Sometimes it's negligence or laziness. Sometimes someone is in the process of learning something new. Sometimes an otherwise competent person has to do the same job with no resources and in a quarter of the time. Sometimes it's the profound ability to ignore common sense. That one is our favorite. It's the main force behind design fails that didn't go as planned.
The bad part about making a product or sign is that if you obviously screw up, a whole bunch of people are gonna see it and get to laugh at your mistake. The upside is that a whole bunch of people are going to see it, and they get to laugh at your mistake. Here are some more dumb design fails that were someone's one job.
Not everyone can be great at their job. We're not exactly sure why that's the case, but it just seems to happen. People design things that look stupid and don't work all the time, and they never seem to stop filling the world with design fails that don't quite cut it. It's pretty cool. For more of these
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.
There are some really not good signs out there. Whether they read as complete gibberish or and up horribly filthy, there's some folks who might need to rethink their one job. Worse than that, sometimes people design products and signs to be horribly misleading and those too are wildly frustrating.
If you're in the business of writing copy, designing signs, or making products, it's best to get a fresh set of eyes to look over that bad boy before calling it good. Seriously, there are too many people who mess up their one job. Apart from that stupidity, sometimes products and things are designed by jerks to manipulate you, and that's even worse.
Don't let the world fool you, almost everyone is doing a bad job all the time. Whether you edit news and magazine layouts or have ever designed stuff that needed extra thought, there are a monstrous amount of failures performed by everyone every day. Sure, it might not be your fault. Sometimes life just hits you with some misfortune. Anyway, here are some from folks who had one goddamn job.
If you feel like you're not great at what you do, then here's some encouragement. Here are some botched installations, utter flubs and stupid failures of negligence. Let's hope you're not so bad at your job that people don't find your work performance ironic. Here are more times someone failed at their one job.
