When you’re neck-deep in your work, you can get so focused on a few details that you no longer see the forest for the trees. Before you know it, you’ve made some major mistakes that are glaringly ...

Some designs make life easier. Others make you question reality. This collection is dedicated to the second kind—the ones so bafflingly bad that they defy logic, common sense, and basic human decency.

Some design fails are so spectacularly bad, they feel less like accidents and more like personal attacks. You look at them and think, “Surely this had to be a joke,” but nope. Someone got paid to do ...