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69 Times Creative And Unique Designs Ended Up Being Impractical, Annoying Or Even Dangerous (New Pics)
Art & DesignMAR 6, 2026

69 Times Creative And Unique Designs Ended Up Being Impractical, Annoying Or Even Dangerous (New Pics)

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Design is a field that runs on creativity. But as with anything, too much of a good thing can quickly become a bad thing—and it turns out, you can absolutely have way too much creativity.
If you need proof, look no further than r/DesignDesign, a subreddit dedicated to what happens when designers try a little too hard and end up with something nobody can actually use. We’ve rounded up some of the funniest and worst offenders below. Scroll down and upvote the ones that left you the most baffled.

#41 Floor Mat With Folding-Up Furniture

Innovative but impractical designer workspace featuring angled tables and floor seating, highlighting design gone too far challenges.
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14points

#42 The Forks They Had At The Restaurant This Guy Went To

Fork and knife combined into one utensil, showcasing a designer fail that makes it impossible to use properly.
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14points

#43 The Dune Popcorn Bucket

Impractical designed coffee cup shaped like a sandworm with popcorn boxes, showing impossible to use design elements.
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14points

#44 Great Ergonomics

Woman using awkwardly designed furniture for working and writing, showcasing designers went too far and made things impossible to use.
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13points

#45 Just No

Innovative plate holder design with integrated plant pots and wastewater recycling, showcasing extreme designer creativity and impracticality.
13points

#46 No One Can See Your Cards, Including You

Hand holding a black playing card with barely visible details, showcasing a designer fail making things impossible to use.
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12points

#47 This Simpsons Mug

Hand holding an impossible to use mug featuring Homer Simpson with a donut-shaped hole in the center, showcasing flawed design.
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11points

#48 Is This Too Literal?

Packaging for plastic items on a display rack showing poor design with hooks making items impossible to use or access.
11points

#49 Creature Cups

Four coffee cups with detailed sea creature shapes inside, showcasing designers gone too far making things impossible to use.
10points

#50 New Store At My Mall. I Have No Idea What Its Called

Sign spelling movement with unclear lettering above a store entrance, illustrating poor design making it impossible to use or read.
10points

#51 I’m Bothered By Like Three Things

Packaging label with letters shaped like animals, showing a designer choice that may be difficult to read or use.
10points

#52 Beer Qr Code Doesn't Work With Most Qr Scanners

QR code shaped like a beer mug next to text, demonstrating design gone too far and impossible to use effectively.
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9points

#53 Achieve Ylur Dreams

Billboard with impractical design where text is partially obscured by a large book graphic, illustrating designers going too far.
9points

#54 The Most Important Information Is Harder To Read Than The Regular Font

Instructions about chocolate storage on a product label, showing design flaws making text hard to read clearly.
8points

#55 Star War

Bold red and black graphic design with distorted text spelling stop war, showcasing designers went too far.
8points

#56 Re-Imagining The Egg Carton

Egg carton packaging design showing impractical and impossible to use features by designers in cardboard.
8points

#57 Worst Designed Remote Ever

Hand holding a minimalist remote control with difficult-to-use button design in a poor lighting setting.
8points

#58 Meatball Plate By Gustav Westman X IKEA

Blue IKEA meatball plate held in hand with meatballs lined up and illustrated instruction booklets on a blue background.
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8points

#59 "Wonderfully" Designed Staircase

Modern staircase with impossible-to-use design featuring wooden and white geometric steps and glass panels in a living space.
7points

#60 Surely These Uncustomisable Chocolate Squares Belong Here?

Chocolate bar with confusing size labels carved into the pieces, an example of designers going too far in usability design.
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7points
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