design fail

We can't hate on people who happened to fall into a design gig without any prior experience, but there are some real asshole designers out there who seem to get off on making people's lives just a little bit more irritating. Who the hell designs a bike rack that bicycles can't fit into? Are you trying to make a statement? Are you stupid? Or are you just evil? We've got an aggravating selection of terribly designed spaces, graphics, and digital interfaces that are sure to make you roll your eyes.

We love laughing at cringey design fails, but some of these are so wild we can't help but assume that people lost their jobs over them. From extreme (and accidental) sexual innuendoto terrible word placement, these fails are pretty much guaranteed to get a reaction out of you. And might even pique your curiosity.

Isn't the whole point of hiring a UX designer or urban planner to make everyday interactions with environments and interfaces user-friendly? Well some things feel like they were designed to make us burn inside with intense rage. Whether it's a poorly placed road sign or a website that tries to extort you at every click, the world is brimming with not just bad design, but asshole design. We've got a bunch of examples of total jerks who designed things to make our lives a little bit more annoying. 

Ever look at something and just think to yourself "Why?" Yeah, us too. This quizzical reactions is generally reserved for fashion fails or cringey internet behavior. But today we're here to WTF design choices that seriously make no sense. A balcony on a doorless facade? A slide that leads into an ominous-looking pit? Mini stairs to absolutely nowhere? They're all covered in this gallery, along with a ton of other designs that are weird at best.

Just because graphic design is your passion, doesn't mean you should do it for a living. Some designers fail to understand the importance of formatting and texture, and missing the mark can result in an unintended, but often hilarious new meaning. The same goes for industrial design, signage, and photo retouching. Sometimes design can be so bad, it's downright dangerous. For example, you should probably be able to see the steps you're about to descend and not an optical illusion of a flat surface. Let these cursed images be a lesson to anyone considering getting into a design field.

While we don't think it's cool to revel in the pain of others, these fails and muck-ups are mild enough for us to laugh at. From spelling errors to crappy design choices, these screw-ups have only caused minor inconveniences and (probably) just a bit of mild embarrassment. So you can push your guilt aside and scroll away gleefully. 

It's easy to scroll through a listicle or your feed without really stopping. Most images we see are pretty easy to absorb. That is not the case for the pictures in this gallery. This gallery is filled with design fails, cursed images, and all-around bizarre crap that makes us stop for a second and think. Which we honestly appreciate these days.

We know that everyone on the internet these days considers themselves a graphic designer, but it looks like these professionals have seriously neglected one important thing: the absolute importance of spacing. Both leaving out an essential gap or adding an unnecessary space can completely alter a message in ways that are often dirty and hilarious. May these woeful design fails be a cautionary tale for your future projects.

Ever see a product or a sign and wonder how it got approved? We do, constantly. And apparently so do a lot of people on Reddit. Crappy Design and Design Fails are two subreddits that are chock full of hideous, offensive, and awkward designs that range from print to architecture. They might make you cringe, but at least you'll feel something.

We get that sometimes mistakes get made. Even very embarrassing mistakes where people laugh at you for years. That's just a normal part of life. 

Where we draw this line of empathy, however, is when brands f*ck up so royally that one can't help but do a double-take. If you're still not on our side here, just think about how each of these designs likely had to go through multiple levels of editor-approval before being printed! Yikes...

Designing something for a product is apparently really hard - that, or the people making this stuff were incredibly overworked or just straight up clueless. Either way, the marketing teams hardcore need to step up their game. 

But hey, at least these fail-filled pics give us a decent amount of entertainment, right?

Elon Musk just unveiled his plans for what he calls the "Cybertruck" last night and its boxy, angular appearance looks incredibly ridiculous, to be blunt. In case you're actually interested in buying the base model (we don't know why you would be), the thing will cost $39,000 and will likely be available around late 2021.

The best part of last night's reveal was when Musk invited his chief of design to throw a steel ball at the truck's window in order to test its durability, which in turn smashed said window.

Scroll down for the internet's best reaction memes to the angular beast!

The following designs are what happens when you try to cram in a whole lot of development into a small urban space. We like to think we could've designed any of these things better than how they turned out, because man, y'all had one job and clearly failed at it miserably.

The following pics are subtly cringey enough to make you both facepalm and feel slightly uncomfortable. Seriously, these people had one job and they totally f*cked it up! We could've done these jobs better!