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What we can learn from the 7 worst design examples ever
Forget beautiful designs, let’s learn from the ugly and funny ones today.
As designers, by nature, we like beautifully designed things.
We look at inspirations from Apple, Airbnb, or Linear for design patterns. We take pictures of beautifully crafted posters on the street. We bookmark websites with creative animations.
But sometimes, ugly things can teach us more than you thought.
In cognitive science, there’s a psychological principle called negativity bias that suggests humans are more sensitive to negative experiences than positive ones — this is why we remember bad experience more than the good ones.
However, although poor design hurts our eyes, it often sticks with us and serves as a powerful tool to inspire us. In the following article, let’s look at some of the worst (and funniest) design examples from the famous badUIBattles forum on Reddit and see what we can learned from them.
#1 Good luck with unsubscribing from my app.
