Cars have touchscreens. Ovens have touchscreens. "There's no doubt that 'featuritis' is real," said design consultant Jakob Nielsen. "Most of these things are too complicated." Nielsen says that ...

These hilarious pictures capture some of the funniest design fails of all time. This catalogue of 'face palm' moments show exactly why hindsight is a wonderful thing. From pencils that advise ...

It might not be a hardware design fail, but it sure is a weird user experience decision. It was a move that, at the time, seemed at odds with Apple’s stance on streaming music — many artists ...

Is intelligent design science, or not ... Doing so without full explanation of why ID fails invokes the rather thorny demarcation problem, which does have some potential to backfire.

But when [Trax] decided to build a GPS chip into his design the fun ended abruptly. Above you can see the section of the board devoted to the hardware. Unfortunately this PCB fails to provide any ...

From tech companies exploiting users to voting ballots that undermined democracy, there was plenty of bad design to choose from. The Trump/Kim Jong-un coin is terrible design–and worse politics ...

It would serve them all to be protected by a more robust set of design practices from companies developing technologies. The same steps could protect users in all these contexts. If the builders ...

How about deeper grooves? Fail of the Week is a Hackaday column which runs every Thursday. Help keep the fun rolling by writing about your past failures and sending us a link to the story ...

Here are five epic design fails that create barriers for my wife and others with disabilities in South Florida. Limited Use Limited Access (LULA) lifts are allowed in the building code ...