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 laugh, so are the jokes. Here are some of the best “bad designs” and the jokes in response to them:
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The bad design choice: Placing the front doors midway up/down some stairs.
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The bad design choice: These STAIRS.
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The bad design choice: This shirt whose designer should have thought ~inside~ the box first.
The joke: “When you’re playing tic tac toe toc.”
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The bad design choice: This “custom” microwave cabinet that the landlord’s “carpenter” made.
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The bad design choice: The stairs in this Airbnb where every step is a different height, width, and depth.
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The bad design choice: This hotel carpet.
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The bad design choice: This stairway with a surprise step.
The joke: “This trick stair saves you countless seconds. Instead of walking down the stairs at a normal pace, this design feature helps you dive down them.”
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The bad design choice: This carpeted bathroom.
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The bad design choice: These freezer windows that have been replaced with digital screens that flash/move and don’t accurately represent what’s inside the fridge.
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The bad design choice: Using bird footprints as directional markers in a hospital, which just look like arrows going the wrong way.
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The bad design choice: Using yellow as the container color for gallons of drinking water.
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The bad design choice: These “renovations” done to a 500 year old tower.
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The bad design choice: This Halloween decor that’s SUPPOSED to say “Trick or Treat.”
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The bad design choice: This restaurant mural that’s allegedly a sun.
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The bad design choice: This bench that gets very hot and is impossible to sit on.
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The bad design choice: “Nev” York?!
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The bad design choice: This handle that’s heavier than the actual pan.
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The bad design choice: This pattern/design that makes it look like there are raindrops all over this hoddie, prompting everyone to ask why the hoodie is wet.
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The bad design choice: Putting the fan’s on/off switch way up on the ceiling, behind the actual fan.
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The bad design choice: This bathroom where you have to step over the bathtub to get to/from the toilet and to the sink.
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Finally, The bad design choice: Literally, just an “E” shaped notebook. 😑