Designers Who Should Go To Hell For Their Ideas – Part 5

– [Narrator] Modern designs should be aesthetically pleasing, practical, functional, or none of these things depending on how much you hate humanity. From playgrounds that have clearly been designed by people who despise children, to toilets with very threatening auras, nowhere is safe from the blight of bad design. With that, let’s take a look

At even more designers who need to go straight to hell for their ideas. Have you ever bought a product with one of those little plastic windows in the packaging that gives you a glimpse of what’s inside? Allows you to see exactly what, you’re buying doesn’t it? Makes you trust the product inside right? Well, not always, as one poor kid discovered.

They received Shimmer And Sparkles Really Big Shamala Bracelet Set for their birthday. But when they pulled the plastic tray out from the box they were greeted with this. How misleading is the size of this plastic tray in box compared to the pitiful amount of beads it actually contains?

Now, I didn’t think any designer in their right mind would be this heartless. And so I figured it must be photoshopped but no, other listings of this kit online show the exact same waste of plastic. With a design that deceptive, I think this company might need to change their name

To Shammer And Sparkle. Now I can just about forgive the crimes designers commit against regular products, but I can’t forgive those who mess with my perception of food through its packaging. For example, take a look at this delicious Kobe beef steak. Kobe beef is from Kobe, Japan, and is one

Of the highest quality beefs out there with an average steak costing roughly $200. But this steak was less than $30 according to Reddit poster Rawghi. Hmm, I wonder why. Oh, oh, I see. They just used the packaging sleeve to hide the empty section, making it look

Like this was way more than there actually was. So it seems like a bargain until you get home and slide that sleeve off to reveal all the disappointment to waiting beneath. I bet it’s never even been to Kobe either. When it comes to food, I always know where I stand

With a cream cheese and salad bagel or at least I thought I did. After seeing this, I’m no longer sure. From one angle, it looks full of filling but whoever made it just stuffed one side to make it seem like a fulfilling meal. I thought I had trust issues before but now.

Considering I can’t go right with meat or dairy, maybe I should go vegan. This vegan mince seems like the real deal. It even promises an incredible hack. Or maybe that’s just referring to the packaging considering this is how much mince you actually get. You might be thinking it’s just been squished down.

Nope, the wax paper underneath reveals this is exactly how much mince you are meant to get. Like vegan food wasn’t enough of a joke already. Speaking of jokes, if you want more content that’ll keep you entertained and informed, be sure to hit those like and subscribe buttons down below.

All right shameless self plug over, what design crime have we got next? Our society isn’t great at adapting to the needs of those with disabilities. And before you start arguing down in the comments, feast your eyes on this incredible design fail. This is tactile paving, designed to help guide those

With visual impairments to the road. Except the path unhelpfully interrupted by a massive bench. Forget being designed to help the disabled. This path seems to have been designed to give someone a disability, as has this one. Apparently this is meant to be some sort of wheelchair ramp

But I don’t believe that for an instant. First this thing is so steep, it’d be impossible to control your speed on the way down. And second, it’s a good foot off the ground at the end, meaning anyone wheeling down here would be flung straight into that wall.

So either this has a totally different purpose or it’s been made for some extreme wheelchairing while that last image might have made the stairs look like a safe option, these stairs look like they lead straight to hell. The patterns make it impossible to see where one step stops and the next one starts.

I think I’ll take my chances on the wheelchair ramp of certain death, thanks. A bathroom should be a relaxing space where you can get on with your business in peace. This was not a thought shared by whoever designed the stalls of these toilets however. Why have the doors been installed so high

Up that they give a full view of anyone sitting down on the john, what was the thought process here? Now I know American toilet cubicles have absurdly wide gaps built into them to make mopping the floor easier and to discourage people from doing naughty things in there but with a gap this high

Why bother attaching the door at all? Although it could always be worse over at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology This designer decided that the entire outside world needed not only a view but also a seat for the bathroom show. For such a prestigious university, you’d think they’d have designed their toilets

A little smarter, or less pervy at the very least. But no matter how freaky public bathrooms may be they’ll never compare to the weirdness you’ll find inside some homes like whatever’s going on here. Reddit user Elsy8 was viewing a house when they spotted this God awful excuse for an en-suite bathroom

Whoever built it clearly didn’t assume privacy would ever be an issue or creepiness. Imagine taking a shower while someone else was using the toilet. I prefer to keep a little mystery in my relationships. Thank you very much. While private bathroom design can be bad, the men among us know

That public urinal design can get so much worse, case in point, this nightmare. Apparently this is someone’s freshly remodeled work bathroom. I really hope there were more than just two urinals there. Otherwise two desperate work buddies might end up cheek to cheek, trying not to cross the streams.

For all the ladies out there who might not understand, and trust me when I say this is way too close for comfort. Okay, that last design might have just been a slight oversight, but it’s hard to see how the design of this urinal was ever approved for use.

The parts of the bowl protecting our shoes from drips have been removed. It’s been designed like this to encourage men to get closer to the bowl so that the drips don’t go everywhere. Okay, that’s pretty logical thinking, but then surely anyone using it just gets a lot of splash back.

So instead of getting pee on the floor you get pee all over your legs. Brilliant, I hate it. But the best worst toilet designs of all are those built on major misjudgments like this. It’s not entirely clear what the line of thinking was here.

Maybe this cubicle is too tiny to put the toilet against the wall. Maybe the waist hole in the floor had already been cut out and the plumber forgot to account for the size of the cistern. Well, whatever it was, simply cutting two huge holes into the wall is some serious redneck engineering.

I mean the water and moisture leaking into the walls is gonna make this one massive mold farm in just a few months. Well, that was clearly a crap idea. And somehow that’s not even the worst of these tragic toilet designs. Back in 2017 the Silute Vydunas Gymnasium in Lithuania

Released these photos of its new toilet facilities safe to say the internet freaked out, no partitions no privacy, and worst of all, no toilet roll. What the heck did this gymnasium expected its patrons to do lock eyes with the people on the bulls opposite them as they gingerly take off a sock?

Thankfully, no, these toilets had just been installed and we’re waiting on their water to be connected and their stalls to be built around them. Lucky for Lithuania. Elsewhere in the world, simple oversights can lead to some seriously awkward urinal designs. This urinal has been rotated 90 degrees

To the other two on either side of it for some reason. So whoever’s brave enough to use it isn’t just showing off their junk to the world from the side, they’re also peeking over into their neighbor’s stall. That’s pretty pervy no matter how you look at it. For all the public restroom designs

That make you uncomfortable, there are a few private ones that are downright cursed. Over in Mexico, Hernandez Silva Arquitectos designed a penthouse perched on top of an old colonial building which had a huge 15 story lift shaft built into it. Most normal architects would’ve bricked it up

Or maybe converted it into a storage space but this studio decided to build a bathroom over it and insert a glass floor. Anyone on the porcelain throne would’ve been faced with a 150 foot drop straight down. Well it’ll scare the (squeak) out of you, that’s for sure.

As bad as toilet designs can be, basins can be even worse. Over in England, one office decided that their bathroom sinks didn’t need to be big and so made what looks like child sized basins for their adult employees. What is this a sink for ants?

Or maybe that guy just has really big hands. What do you think? Let me know down in the comments. A weirdly small sink isn’t the worst issue you could have in a public bathroom though. You could walk into a toilet and be confronted with this. I really wish I had an answer

For why someone thought this was an okay thing to create but I don’t. All I can say is no matter how bad the mess you make in that bathroom is, it’ll never be worth washing your hands in that sink. While that last sink was overtly terrible,

And this one makes me itch for a different reason. Why would someone build a cabinet at that angle so that it pokes out in the middle of the room? Perhaps this is my need for neatness shining through but I hate that it isn’t built against the wall like the rest of them.

When this was posted to Reddit, a kitchen designer commented that this person likely bought a dishwasher without checking the size of it and tried to jam it in there, after realizing it didn’t fit and that remodeling the cabinets would be pricey, they just stuck it in at an angle

And pretended like nothing was wrong. Well, I’m sorry to say that it was wrong. So wrong. Maybe even the worst. Wait, no, that’s not the worst because this exists. Okay, stay with me so that it feels less like I’m having a stroke. But I think the reason someone did this is

Because of a water supply issue. In order to get a washing machine to work it has to be connected to a water supply and drainage pipe. However, if you have limited water supply points in your property, but still really want a washing machine you have to compromise.

And so that I’m guessing is why this person has a washing machine linked to their bathroom that now lives in their wall. On the plus side, their house now has a vibrate mode. Now you’d assume playgrounds would be pretty easy to design. Just throw in a few monkey bars, slides, and teeter totters

And you’re good to go, unless you’ve hired a total psychopath to build your playground in which case you get slides like this, I feel so sorry for every little boy that tried this derpy slide out, ooh, ouch. Why wouldn’t you just stick with a normal slide that has slides? You know, something like,

Actually I take it back, that’s not a slide, it’s a death drop. You can just about see from the lines of paint on the legs that it has been pulled out of the ground. If those were in the ground I imagine the slide itself would be at a more reasonable angle.

So it would look less like a death trap. This on the other hand is hard to justify. No matter how I look at it looks like it was designed to be a straight 90 degree drop, a playground ride called baby’s first head injury maybe? Well, even if that kid did bump their noggin

Playing on that slide, it’d be better than the headache they’d get from looking at this thing. It looks like Mr. Banana here really shouldn’t be allowed within 100 feet of any public playground. Thanks to that wildly inappropriate slide placement but it could always be worse. Thanks to the power of Photoshop.

Oh God, who even thinks of these things? A cheese grater slide? I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy, let alone a kid. And while it doesn’t actually exist, it’s almost better than playground features that do exist like this. Okay, maybe I went to different playgrounds

Than everyone else when I was a kid but I have no idea what this is meant to be. Is it a really weird bench, part of some strange game, a cry for help? What am I looking at here, please? Someone, anyone tell me what this is down in the comments below.

As bad as that bizarre bench thing is though it’s not as suggestive as this poor bounce house pirate, seems he’s suffering from a little cutlass dysfunction if you know what I mean. He’s not getting enough air into his blow up sword and he really couldn’t be holding it

In a worse place, could he? Working out is a great way to improve your fitness, change your body shape and get ripped. You know what it can’t do? Change your race. Although that didn’t stop an old business called Fast Fitness over in Australia from advertising

That it can, there was either a monumental miscommunication between this gym and the advertising agency or this is the before versus after transformation of the century. Science says that people with more symmetrical faces are considered more attractive compared to those like me who are unsymmetrical. I’m sure there’s some truth to that

But when you’re confronted with it on a shop display like this it’s hilariously unnerving. Fortunately, this is just a mirror image of one side of this model’s face, not a man’s attempt to create the perfect woman gone wrong. Imagine seeing this weirdly wide face on the side of these shelves

Assuming it was just a design flaw before turning around and seeing woman with this exact face standing next to you. Holy cow. Ever needed to lock your door to get a little privacy? Well, be thankful you don’t live in this house, despite not having one, but two locks,

The mastermind who installed these locks failed to consider that this is a sliding door. Yep, no privacy to be found here, unless this family paid for someone to install the illusion of privacy. In which case, money well spent. Is there anything more frustrating than when products come in redundant packaging?

Like when Amazon delivers what you ordered in a box 100 times the size of the product or when you buy something that turns out to be mostly empty it’s just been made to seem like there’ll be much more product inside. Well, one of our amazing viewers

James Innes might have found the worst example of them all. He sent me through this photo of some medication he has to take. The only thing is it’s one pill that comes with not one not two, but four different layers of packaging. What’s so wrong with the blister pack?

Why does each pill have to be individually packaged and protected like this? I know children that don’t receive as many layers of protection as these pills do. Is there a super important medical reason for this that I don’t know about? Let me know down in the comments.

As wasteful as that pill packaging was I think I might have found something even worse. This is supposed to be a pot of eyeliner but the amount of eyeliner that’s actually in here is that coin sized divot that barely makes up one third of the tub

While having a bigger pot helps people keep hold of it. Why wouldn’t the company? Just fill the whole pot with eyeliner instead of wasting all that space. Why does this make me so mad? I don’t even wear eyeliner, at least not on weekdays. Speaking of eyeliner the big black eyes and adorable features

Of the Panda makes it a perfect animal to turn into a variety of merchandise. But when this person bought some fun looking Panda candy they were left tasting disappointment which (squeak) designer thought only printing a Panda on the see through packaging was a good idea? Without it, there’s literally no way to

Tell this was ever meant to be a Panda pop. I guess this designer was sick of panda-ing consumers. Have you ever picked something up and used it before realizing it was something else? Yeah, I’ve ended up with shaving cream in my pits rather than deodorant more times than I can count.

Not the end of the world, but picking this up thinking it was a tasty beverage and trying to drink It. Definitely would be. Even though the color and name makes it look like a delicious orange drink this is actually floor cleaner. Ah, yes, the forbidden orange juice.

Now with the added taste of bleach. To become a licensed architect, you need to take several exams and have a hard earned degree under your belt. So you’d expect most architects to be pretty smart, right? Well maybe the one who designed this house in Indianapolis was just having a bad day.

They designed it to have two sets of double doors at the front, pretty odd choice but necessary seeing how one of them is blocked off entirely by a huge set of stairs. What I wouldn’t give to see the look on the architect’s face when they realized what they’d done.

Kind of makes you wonder what else might be wrong with this place still. That’s not as bad as some of the designs you find in public buildings. This school managed to install a fan in the ceiling without realizing the blades were hilariously obstructed. Maybe that’s not actually a fan.

Maybe it’s the school’s self-destruct device, with the push of a button, the fan tears through those support beams and brings down the whole school. Hey, problem solved. Well, we can only hope that the same sort of self-destruct mechanism is in place at this mall.

Otherwise I might tear it apart brick by brick myself. Why on God’s green earth would you install a row of lights like that? Was it so hard to space them evenly and make them line up? The part of me that likes neat tidy lines is screaming incoherently deep down in my soul.

While that lighting design was nothing but chaos, at least an attempt at effort was made here. There are still public buildings like schools and libraries that have wall clocks hooked up to their mains system. Great if you often forget to change the batteries, horrible if something needs to be inserted

In front of them, like a whacking great pole whoever spent their time painting over that pole and adding in the clock, numbers has more patience and understanding than I ever will. I wonder if the person who created those unmovable clocks also decided just not to move this sign

Found inside the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport, it seems a little temporary building work and an entirely imovable sign led to this incredible compromise. I’d like to assume that people are smart enough to figure out what the sign says. But I imagine airport staff get asked

For directions a lot while this sign isn’t in full view. And while we’re on the topic of airports have you ever booked a window seat on a plane only to be greeted with a noticeable lack of window? Well, if you didn’t know already booking a window seat doesn’t guarantee you’ll get a window.

If you’re flying economy, you should know your part of the plane has been designed to fit the most people in per flight possible. This allows the airlines to make the most money possible as such Aircrafts have been refitted and modified over the years to fit more rows of seats in.

So their windows don’t always line up with the rows of seats inside. Looks like I’ll be booking aisle seats from here on. Have you ever been so hot in a room that you’ve thrown all the windows open? Well, while you enjoy your breeze, spare a thought

For the poor guy who had these two windows installed in his home, closed they look fine but only one can ever open at a time thanks to the way they’ve been placed. What a pain, get it? Window pane? Yeah, you can’t hate me more than I already hate myself.

At this point, almost everyone alive knows what this is, a lateral flow test. After swabbing your nostrils and tonsils, you dunk your swab into some sterile solution, pop a few drops on this thing. And within a couple of minutes, you know if you’ve got the dreaded COVID-19.

One line good, two lines bad, you all know the drill. But have you ever wondered what lies beyond the plastic casing? Because opening it up is pretty surprising. There’s just one teeny tiny strip of paper in all that plastic, considering that billions of these tests have been taken all around the world

And that only negative ones can be recycled. That’s a massive waste of plastic, isn’t it? Despite looking like a big middle finger to the environment these tests have actually been very purposefully designed. The strip works best when laid level, the results can be easily interpreted the drops always land

In a specific location and it’s large enough so that even those who are old or have disabilities can handle them with ease. Pretty ingenious to think a product has been designed with so many factors in mind. Even if the environment does hate us for it.

Which of these designers did you think deserves to suffer for their crimes against common sense? And have you witnessed any design crimes of your own? Let me know down in the comments below and as always, thanks for watching.