The Worst Design Ever
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In response to Bennett’s comment on Design Heroes, yes, I am ready to show my worst. However, in this case, I was trying to make the worst design I could.
Okay, now what is wrong with this design? Can you do worse than this, or do you dare to? You can get a closer look here.
Have fun.
Comments (4)
len said:
where’s the irritating florescent green color that hurts your eyes and may cause you to lose what little vision you have left?
how about recycled 1980’s dot matrix fonts? Or photos in those 1970’s line-printer overlapping print style? Can you say tired?
no blinking ads or blinking text?
no trendy 90 degree CCR rotated menus along the left edge?
no “i’m hipper-than-thou” attitude?
is that really paris?
where’s the pop-up sub-pages and 37 levels of slide-out menus?
I suppose there’s a Flash animation in there somewhere.
Why not have totally incompatable color combos?
I can’t believe there’s no javascript errors or even fake windows dialog boxes here.
I think it could be far worse than this.
Posted on September 28, 2004
George Morgan said:
len, its a print design not a website. Whats so funny about this is that you see stuff like this everywhere.
Posted on September 29, 2004
Kyle said:
Yes, you do see stuff like this everywhere. People think that twirly text (you know, distorted into flag or banner or ribbon shapes) is the best thing ever. People have actually given me text docs, and insisted I use their curvy-swirly titles. Ugly.
Posted on September 29, 2004
xhanubis said:
That design sure is terrible…and lot of the things you listed above are indeed bad, but then design belongs to not only time but also culture.
And the web as a global medium, brings very contradictory design elements side by side…so what is bad design in the here and now might have been cool in a time past (it must be)
If we must be honest with ourselves there was a time not so long ago when you would wait for the 800kb “flash intro” on a dial up as then it was new and cool.
After the umpteen intro its been there done that…so when I think of bad design I think of did it serve its purpose communicate etc…
As I am sure there are still places whre twirly text on a distorted flag is still cool…
Anyway that above suck! as it was meant to be did it prove its point and communicate as was intended? was it bad design? hmmmmm….
More Time X
Posted on October 11, 2004