When a design doesn’t work, it often draws more attention to itself than when it works perfectly. A wobbly shopping cart, a flimsy potato peeler, a puzzling highway sign: These are common nuisances.

Everyone makes mistakes, but the design fails in today’s post are so spectacularly bad, you’ve got to wonder if these designers were even trying. From doors that don’t open to bad logos that look ...

Did you know there is an entire subreddit dedicated just to bad designs?! It's called r/CrappyDesign, and not only are the images always good for a laugh, but so are the jokes. Here are some of the ...

The world is full of many, many, many AWFUL designs. In fact, bad designs happen so often that there's an entire subreddit dedicated to it! And while the images in r/CrappyDesign are always good for a ...

In support of this month's theme on electrical design, the EC&M editorial team, our Code consultants, and contributing authors worked long and hard to produce some enlightening articles on this topic.

It's one of the great dilemmas for a designer in any field: you take on a project with a list of client directives that will surely result in a design disaster. Your client thinks he knows best, but ...

Battlefield 6's Red Bull Recon challenge has made the game unbearable. But Battlefield is not alone in bad challenge designs.

Being a designer – whether it's interior, graphic, advertising, or public space – takes a lot of creativity and skill. Sure, lots of people are good at their jobs, but only a few might be geniuses.

This Nov. 8, even if you manage to be registered in time and have the right identification, there is something else that could stop you from exercising your right to vote. The ballot. Specifically, ...