Aesthetics is only one part of designing a product or a structure. Functionality and safety are equally important, and as a ...

When a design doesn’t work, it often draws more attention to itself than when it works perfectly. A wobbly shopping cart, a flimsy potato peeler, a puzzling highway sign: These are common nuisances.

Everyone makes mistakes, but the design fails in today’s post are so spectacularly bad, you’ve got to wonder if these designers were even trying. From doors that don’t open to bad logos that look ...

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." ...