Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Bad Designs
Our assignment to look for bad designs in the world around us was not too difficult, I even found a web site that is dedicated to it: http://www.baddesigns.com/examples.html. It was amusing to see how the bad designs cause us now to go, huh? or why was that done? Hopefully we, as instructional designers, do not stop just with finding bad design. The next step is identifying why the designs are bad and formulate a plan for fixing the design problem, remembering to keep in mind the problems that may result in consequence of the your efforts to fix the first bad design you came across.
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I love the website! Did you read the "stuck between the doors" one? That totally made me laugh, but at the same time, I think I would totally make the same mistake!
ReplyDeleteIt is not hard to find bad design when you start to look for it. However, I think we need to be careful about what we call bad design. What may be bad design to one person may not be bad design to another. If design is functional and meets the intented needs, then who is to say that it is bad design?
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