A Pizza Hut entrance sign with an arrow pointing left, mounted on a brick wall.
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Design fails seem to accompany the times when the clever collides with the careless motions. This collection of 15 design fails portrays how the “bad moments” can serve as their own cautionary tales with lessons of their own too.

1. We’re You’re Not ‘Til Not Happy?

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2. Warning: reading this sign is the unsafe part

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3. When “plugged-in” becomes the whole design brief

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4. Premium light pole installed, in the middle of the street

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5. How are you supposed to roll those blinds?

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6. “No Everything Im Is Possible”: motivation by a word salad

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7. Belle’s office chair, now featuring a three-foot neck

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8. You have to put in the work if you really want that pizza

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9. Two security barriers; infinite gaps

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10. Aren’t those supposed to go on the inside?

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11. Second-floor door to nowhere; gravity not included

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12. When you order crepes, but end up with something totally different

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13. Punctuation would really help you, Rob

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14. Braille printed on flat paper; “Welcome”… to the problem

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15. Sugar-free oatmeal, with maple and brown sugar

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Matt has spent over the last 8 years as both a writer and editor, working in Seattle and Brooklyn, where he is now based. He loves escaping the tirelessly fast pace of the “Mad Apple” that is NYC by taking walks and runs through parks where he’s able to catch up on the latest tea about society from the city’s ever chatty, always hungry, occasionally maniacal, pigeons. They always have a lot to say. When he’s not taking his urban nature strolls, or dutifully combing the deepest rabbit holes of the internet to find the content that’s worth sinking your mind’s teeth into, he’s likely holed up at a dark-lit dive bar with a new book and/or some friends, or just as easily he could be on the hunt for the next addition to his steadily growing plant family.

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