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.

The world is full of many, many, many AWFUL designs. In fact, bad designs happen so often that there's an entire subreddit dedicated to it! And while the images in r/CrappyDesign are always good for a ...

In support of this month's theme on electrical design, the EC&M editorial team, our Code consultants, and contributing authors worked long and hard to produce some enlightening articles on this topic.

Being a designer – whether it's interior, graphic, advertising, or public space – takes a lot of creativity and skill. Sure, lots of people are good at their jobs, but only a few might be geniuses.

It's one of the great dilemmas for a designer in any field: you take on a project with a list of client directives that will surely result in a design disaster. Your client thinks he knows best, but ...

Badly drawn, derivative, and forgettable logos. Poorly designed websites and mobile apps. Formulaic products with no flair or originality. If you’re a business, bad design hurts — from uninspiring ...