“Really Bad Design Memes” Is A Place Online Where Designers Go For A Good Laugh (30 Pics)
Whether you're a freelancer or in-house designer, chances are, you've experienced quite the amount of annoying situations on the job. After all, working in a fast-paced environment, dealing with unreasonable clients and ridiculous demands can be challenging. But even when these struggles seem overwhelming, it's always good to lift our spirits by poking fun at them and letting out a few genuine laughs.
Enter the Really Bad Design Memes Instagram account, dedicated to sharing hilarious pics about what being a User Experience (UX) designer is all about. Self-naming themselves as "The Cleveland Browns of meme pages," the creators ask you not to take your job too seriously and offer you a variety of jokes to ease everyday stress.
So get ready to dive into the best and most hilarious posts we have collected from the account. Upvote the ones that cracked you up, and let us know what you think about them in the comments below!
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This has always bothered me because I'm already not getting paid when I'm sick, and now you want me to pay for a doctor's appointment, and not only that, but a last minute one? That means immediate care, which means an even bigger bill. You want a note? Pay for it.
We agree on a lot of things! Doctors don't like to be cops for your employers, either. And we don't have crystal balls to magically predict the date you'll get better, even though your employers think that. And we don't like making kids (and their employed parents) come in at the height of the cold and flu season to sit in a waiting room with newly sick kids, to get a note saying they are all better and can come back to school. It's also galling to write notes to school telling them "Johnny can't read" and asking for services, when the teacher and the parent are already totally aware of that, and what should happen instead is that schools (15k per student per year) should be better funded than prisons (30K per inmate per year).
Load More Replies...Dr's notes are hard to come by right now. If you have any covid syptoms(which match a ton of other illnesses) Dr's and hospitals want you to stay home. I think I have the only Dr that will phone a work place and talk to the boss. Also many Dr's charge stupid money for any notes needed.
The worst companies are always bragging to their investors about how well the company is doing and then whining to their employees about how badly the company is doing while also blaming them for it.
If you boycotted all “shitty companies”, unfortunately you’d probably starve.
You probably don't get a living wage because you don't have the skills to justify paying you more.
That would be... what: being born to a rich daddy?
Load More Replies...You do realize this is a thing because tons of people try to take advantage and call off every other week right?
That actually sounds like a great premise twist on a reality TV show. A hidden cam show about how long someone can pose as an employee before getting caught.
"Hey, who's the new guy?" "Idk, maybe he was hired outside the company?" "Oh s**t.... Do you think we're being replaced?" "What, you mean like aliens?" "..... "
That happened on seinfeld. That was a whole episode. It also similarly happened in a movie called the secret of My success.
I've been calling on our Home Affairs dept for 2 weeks straight after waiting 5months for a single document (that should take 6weeks if a place burns down) ... Im just going to walk in there and start working - since they don't. I'll get my stuff and promptly just leave - they won't even know I didn't belong there.
But refuse to do any actual work, tell them 'You'd prefer not to.'Tell them your name is Bartleby.
There was a sit-com (called Hank, I think) about a guy who runs a lunch truck at a college and dresses up in different disguises to drop in to classes to get the education he can't afford. Run with it 😃
There was a Lithuanian comedian, who worked like an hour in a local supermarket like that. Nobody noticed. He even called the supermarked, and asked for payment. He made some nice content for Lithuanian pals.
I met up a place and asked where to put my lunch, i was there for a year :-)
Cons: fewer spontaneous outings because every outing now requires the "effort" of going out.
I think most memes on this post are not design memes and are intended for fun. They are funny though I think.
Load More Replies...Here's 1 con I can attest to with 100% certainty. It's MUCH easier to work 60-70 hours a week when you don't have to leave the office to go home.
Outlier here: I actually enjoy my team and get a lot out of going into the office. Working from home makes me anxious; I never feel connected enough, and feel judged for not "getting enough done". I also live close enough to bike to work, so I get less cardio at home. I prefer the office 100%.
I also stress about not being seen to do enough at home, even though I get more done at home than in the office. I feel guilty if I go to the bathroom and miss a call when working from home.
Load More Replies...Cons. Having no life no time. No breaks and still missing family events \bdays because working from home steals ur entire day. U can only live on their "very flexiblex schedule like ure in prison. 15 min break every 2 hrs & when ure pregnant u still need a mote from ur dr which is great for ur anxiety\bipolar to have to call to get that drive down go thru the stupid pandemic check set up, get on the elevator hope to find the right floor, pray someone babysits or drag ur kids in w u all to grab a piece of paper to email to ur "boss" & need a sitter all day long so u can work from home to be w ur family. Very convenient i suggest it to anyone! Also, have a room away from ur kids specifically designed for your work....
Cons: Displacing space you previously used for hobbies and doing things like managing finances and family endeavors; eliminating the separation of work/life to where there's nothing to balance- it's all blended together so now you have no escape.; Deteriorating body language and people skills. These may not apply to people making enough to build out a separate office at home and afford going out every day/night. Or I guess people that just need to peck out emails and chat on slack.
To find out more about the struggles of this profession and how bad design can lead to unfortunate results, we managed to get in touch with Jonathan Shariat, a designer with more than 10 years of experience in the field and co-author of Tragic Design: The Impact of Bad Product Design and How to Fix It.
He told us that when a design "harms people physically, angers them, excludes people, or causes injustice", it is regarded as terrible. "Design is the decisions made about how someone will use and experience the things we make, sometimes we fail to think through the implications of those decisions and it ends up causing harm to others," he added.
We also reached out to Nick Babich, a product designer and a blogger, who also had a few thoughts to add. He mentioned that lack of communication and creativity are also the root causes of why some designs end up looking bad. "Lack of communication leads to bad product design decisions, while lack of creativity leads to poor aesthetics." While dozens of new products are released daily, he assured that "not all of them are created by experienced product teams."
Yeah, people with mad followers on LinkedIn be bigging themselves up like they're the paragon of humanity
Load More Replies...What are you even saying here? Not getting jobs is as routine yet disappointing to older people as it is for anyone else. And this weird and nasty take was upvoted a bunch.
Load More Replies...we should make a reality show, where economist/politicians survive a year with minimum wage, with no outside help and two kids
Yeah....those two kids are your fault. Quit complaining.
Load More Replies...I hoped the replies were being j/k or /SARCASM but I think they are serious. Who are these Boomers you are talking about, your parents? I’m a Boomer, born in 1960, and I’ve interviewed over and over for jobs (ages 16-50) using the same gf information we all see and research. Trends in interviewing and job searches change and everybody adapts. What horrible assumptions you make; that we’d cry or freak out at something many of us still have to do? Who are these adults who have had the same jobs for 30 years? And my friends w adult children wouldn't give the advice you’re laughing about. The f?!?
I think the difference here is that the jobs that pretty much anyone can get, lowest ranking factory worker, cleaners etc. do pay so little today compared to expenses that you can barely afford living. Now you applying to some job means you bring with you 40 years of experience and the salary you would get would probably be double/triple than what some fresh 18 year old would get. And I dont in anyway blame you, the world is just different.. my dad could buy house and provide for my mother and 3 of us children by his own without degree or any special high paying job. I with a degree can afford most things and could afford similar house (might take bit longer to pay the mortgage tho) my parents have but I couldnt solely with my salary also provide for 4 other people.
Load More Replies...Dude sounds so dumb.. Them blaming boomers is no different then boomers blaming them for today's market.. So why point fingers like you come from a perfect generation.. As a 40 year old. Millennial I will tell you this, this new generation has gotten way out of hand with there American entitlement.. And that is coming from a very proud American who has served.. We get it your free but to what extent before you start taking other people's freedoms away.. This guy's mental breakdowns are caused by him because of him. period
Dude, the point of the joke is that applying for a job has changed radically over the past 30 years, yet Boomers keep insist job seekers follow their outdated advice. Advice that isn't necessarily asked for.
Load More Replies...Or maybe how quickly they go online to get updated job hunting info, which is readily available. But they’ve probably already done that because no particular age group is uniformly stupid or uneducated. But go ahead and project weird stuff on older people, you clearly are superior and will remain that way until you perish.
Or how millenials finish college and presume they are entitled to make 200k a year
Nope, we graduate college and expect to make a decent wage that pays our bills. $30k per year with a college degree that was paid for with student loans doesn't do that. $50k does, which isn't a lot to ask considering the average wage overall is $40k.
Load More Replies...Don't forget they want everything free! Free free just tell em to print more money, right?
Load More Replies...Then explain all the Boomer Karens out there who are entitled and want to speak to everyone's manager
Load More Replies...I'm not even a Boomer (Gen X), but I'd like to see a time-traveling reality TV show where older generations are entertained by younger generations as they try to survive without smart phones, internet, or their bail-them-out-financially, indulgent parents' support. If generalizations are to be believed, I'm pretty sure it's anybody born post 1980 that would be crying like a whiny baby because they couldn't get a job. Generalizations aside, I've run into my fair share of low-threshold-for-stress-lack-of-perseverance youngsters, who can't figure anything out if they can't Google it, or don't have access to wifi. Heaven forbid they find themselves inconvenienced, or have their entitled demands left unanswered in any way at all. The only blame I shift on Boomers is due to the fact that they're responsible for raising these whiners.
Their your kids Karen er I mean Meagan. NOT ours. Our kids are grown adults by now and I don't mean they're 18, more like 30
Load More Replies...Sorry, @sshole, but we don't turn every little setback into a mental health crisis. That's more your generation's thing.
Anything that has a "like us on facebook" is a one way ticket to the trash bin, never to be seen again.
The only cookies people want, are the type you eat. No, I don't want every other website for the next forever to spam me with adverts for the item I just bought.
"Are you subscribed to our news company?? We won't let you read this article unless you're subscribed! Subscribe now!" NO. You haven't even done anything for me yet!!
I think it's fair to pay for quality journalism, which is why I subscribe to four news organizations.
Load More Replies...never ending pop up windows on website have become unbearably ridiculous...
I have the text larger than 100% because of a need to be able to see the screen from several feet away. Those freaking ad windows cover every part of the article I am trying to read in between the patches that these moving pictures, that I can't turn off, are floating over.
Load More Replies...SUBSCRIBE AND SIGN UP NOW, AND HAVE A MILLION ADS! balls-620c...0128a3.jpg
This explains why sometimes it can start to feel like poorly designed products are all around us. Shariat said that one reason behind it is that good design isn’t easy. If people want to create something that has a purpose and is delightful to interact with, it takes a lot of learning and experience in the field. "Good design requires us to think about and understand others," Shariat explained. "That doesn't come naturally for most of us but always makes things better."
So when professionals fail to do that, certain choices they make can seriously affect other people. When a product has flaws, "the negative impact can be pretty severe," Babich told us. "Just imagine a medical device (i.e., heart rate monitor) that shows incorrect data about the user’s health (i.e., shows a status "Everything is okay" while the user experiences problems with his health)." The outcome can be rather dramatic.
You can just say, I took some personal time. You don't need to stroke out thinking of an excuse. Just breathe it'll be ok.
This obsession with gaps in a resume drives me nuts. This is my LIFE and I do not live to work, I live to live. i'm not a f*cking robot, leave me be.
Me: The gap in my employment is from when I went to Yale. Employer: you're hired! Me: thank you so much, I really need this yob.
I don't think it's an unreasonable question, especially if the gap is recent. The level of detail required to answer it might be unreasonable. I might not word it as bluntly as that, but I would be prepared to ask that question, not because I care that the person was not working, but because I don't want to be hiring for the same position again in a few months time. I wouldn't expect the applicant to share intimate details with me. I have an hour to assess someone for a role, I have no evidence of what they are actually like as an employee, or how they will perform, the only thing I can look at is what they have put on their CV.
A Gap is no evidencie the person is unreliable. If they got in and out an job in little time then it's evidence but just a gap isn't.
Load More Replies...You could always say volunteer work, then invite the interviewer to ask you more about your work experience. After all, you were doing something during that time, and you definitely weren't getting paid.
You say the truth. Why would you advice people to lie?
Load More Replies...They need to know if you're market ready. The world is ever changing and if it's been a while since you gained your most recent qualification, there's a chance you might have fallen behind. It's a risk most companies aren't willing to face. If you're stuck in a rut, attend some free online courses and write it on your CV so your future employer knows you've kept up.
...why do you think you're at the job interview though? They're trying to find out *why* you took time off. Having a sabbatical is a perfectly fine reason, they just want to know.
I like that -- "I was fortunate enough to be able to take a sabbatical." "A loved one had some health issues that have thankfully passed and I was caring for them." The loves one can be you and the health issues can be mental health (depression, burnout, etc).
Load More Replies...I've had to answer that question before and I always give the same answer. 1 this is irrelevant to the interview. 2 if they persist I go into the long drawn out explanation of how my dad had cancer, killed himself and I was homeless. I then offer, do you need a diversity higher I'm also mixed race! This is how I weed out bad employers by the way.
But it is relevant to the interview, especially if you had a lot of gaps. Of course, this is pre-Covid. They need to know if you will be working at the company a year from now. The hiring and onboarding process/training is expensive. That's how company's weed out bad applicants, by the way.
Load More Replies...If you haven't seen the movie by now, spoilers are fair game.
Load More Replies...To be fair this was a fictional character so IMO doesn't really help to understand real-life lessons much
For those of you who think it's a spoiler, just go watch it anyways. It's been out for years. Didn't even know what movie it was from till I searched in the comments. If you know which movie this is, you should have already known what happened.
The "would you have explained the same thing if she had been a man?" part is missing.
See "would most men with her education and experience already know this"
Load More Replies...Aaaaand this chart immediately highlights a problem with this mindset: according to the chart any unsolicited explanation is categorized as, at best, "probably mansplaining." Let that sink in for a moment. Explaining to a new hire how to submit timesheets before they ask? Probably mansplaining. Clarifying terms in a specific context for an academic discussion? Probably mansplaining. Providing additional context for an ongoing situation which the listener was unaware of? Probably mansplaining. Sometimes, stopping every 30 secs to ask if someone needs something explained to them is the MORE pedantic option, not less.
In fact, we can expect that any explanation will be considered as mansplaining, or any talk :D
Load More Replies...Woman co-worker: [makes catastrophic, career-ending error while I stand back and watch.] Other co-worker: Why didn't you stop her? Me: That would have been mansplaining. [Eats more popcorn.]
Why is it so many men seem to want to immediately argue about and explain this chart??
Because having a penis does not mean you are not allowed to disagree.
Load More Replies...Something tells me this woman is just insufferable. Also a liar. No man would ask if he was mansplaining. Maybe one guy. Not enough to make a diagram.
Whenever you say "don't mansplain" in a group... you are virtually guaranteed to have men respond "define mansplaining". This happens ALL THE TIME.
Load More Replies...I would like to point out that mansplaining is not explicitly sexist behavior. It's very common for guys to assume the role of the expert or leader and start dishing out advice to ANYONE who doesn't shut them up immediately. Two common examples are the 'armchair quarterbacks' and umarell. Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umarell
But it happens more often to women than men. Especially in male dominated fields.
Load More Replies...Who cares what the gender of the person is? If someone is trying to be helpful even if you already knew that info, be thankful they were trying to help you in case you didn't know. If they were trying to show their superiority, welcome to the world... now you know to limit interactions with them.
Women do the same crap to men... Are u SURE you know what time Johnny's game is? See this thing? It's a calender & it'll tell you. Do u even know how to DO laundry? Can you reheat this for Annie or should I??? You see this button here? Same s**t. Get over it
Hmm... that sounds like a you problem... I've never had a woman speak to me like that.
Load More Replies...Shariat also provided a few examples of how bad design can impact our lives. "A confusing control in your car could distract you and cause an accident. Hospital staff could accidentally enter into a pump 10x the medication for a patient. A confusing voting system can cause people's votes to be thrown out or worse, vote for the wrong person."
"We rely on design every day for critical things, and sometimes they fail us and people get hurt, or it causes major financial damage," he said. But when it comes to design ethics, being concerned about them "isn't just about avoiding harming others," Shariat added. "Ethical design has also been shown to be much more effective and builds long-term, sustainable business growth!"
Blame the council. This was the only design they approved.
Load More Replies...This isn't an architectural design. It is a repaired fort or castle. Many such buildings were damaged by war, & rebuilt. I don't know where this picture was taken, but my parents took me to Germany in the 80s & all of the old town & churches were repaired with modern materials such as cinder blocks. They don't tear down their ruins. Also, many of my German relatives hate old buildings & restrictions placed on exterior colors. In the more historical areas they must fit in with the landscape; earth tones. It's possible they don't have such restrictions & went for it. The newer buildings there & in personal homes, much of the furniture & design is modern. Would you like one of your own? You can own an old historical building such as this in Germany as well, some on the Mosel river. ALL you have to do is sign a contract agreeing keep it up, & update it with plumbing & electricity. I'd think more rich people would do something like that, but that's just me.
Who the hell thought it was a good idea? Reminds me of "renovation" of this small castle: zmek-620e5...399842.jpg
I love when I get targeted ads that are completely off-base for me (like diaper ads when I have no desire for kids and no kids in my life). It’s like “haha stupid company, I know you’re paying money to show me this ad and it’s just WASTED ON ME 😈”
Load More Replies...Well, we are just assuming these fellas don't have the same needs. They will both need products relating to joint health or digestion for example. Plus, we don't actually know if Prince Charles secretly enjoys rocking out to Ozzy in his spare time, do we. People making alot of assumptions out here. ;)
He does like rock. I don't know if he likes Black Sabbath but he is a known Status Quo fan.
Load More Replies...If royalty were a voting position, by popularity Ozzy would be king.
Not just an engineer. I imagine this went through a whole multi-step approval process.
They were probably like, if it's unusable while it's charging, then their sheep will buy two!
Lots of people are still moaning about this despite having a very good explanation and reasoning. These mice can charge in 5 min to last for 8-10 hours of use. The connector is on the bottom to prevent users keeping the cable plugged in while not charging.
That's the whole point... That mouse needs charging once a longtime. Just like how apple used to make their charging cables very short so that people don't use the device whilst it's use. It's about preserving the actual battery from degradation
Yes, but as long as it is by Apple, people will still buy tons of it and pretend they like it just to show everyone how cool and rich they are.
That's the whole point of Apple marketing. They want you to believe, that you belong to an exclusive circle and are something special. And for that you love to pay a bit more.
Load More Replies...I once said in a retail job- you are problem... combination of - you are welcome + No problem
Nah, man. That entire diagram would be one giant circle of Republicans being able, committing to, and actually producing voting restrictions laws to shut out non-whites, as it is literally happening in Red states right now. This is why Black Republicans are a living contradiction to logic and a sharp slap in the face to Black History.
Load More Replies...When it comes to the struggles of being a UI/UX designer, one of the biggest challenges is "seeing things from other people's perspectives. Different people can experience the same thing much differently," he added. "It's the job of a designer to understand their users and find what works best for all of them."
Meanwhile, Nick Babich believes constant learning is both a blessing and a curse of product design. "You have to process a lot of information on a daily basis to create a good design," he told Bored Panda.
Omg I had a boss 28 years ago in an auto parts store who always had crumbs in his beard.
Load More Replies...Seriously, who looked at that in the mirror and thought, "Yeah, this is fabulous!"? 😳
These always make me want to find the original source of disdain.
Load More Replies...He shall punish the non believers of the statefarm
Load More Replies...The problem of making things idiot proof is we underestimate the creativity of an idiot.
Yep, kind of like wearing your male appendage outside your underwear.
The one that really infuriates me is people that wear their mask when just chilling but take it OFF to talk to people, when they are actively directing respiratory droplets at a person.
I see this all of the time. People protecting the hell out of their chin and lips!! The nose where the virus actually gets into to have access to the body and make you sick??!!!?? Not so much!!
saw a girl at my uni walk back to her desk HOLDING a flat a*s mask over her mouth but not her nose with her hands. Wasn't tucked behind her ears, she wasn't wearing it. She was just holding it over her mouth.
When we're dealing with such struggles, memes are a great way to find shelter from the burdens of our everyday lives. They help us unwind, connect with other people, and, of course, let out a laugh or two. Jonathan Shariat admitted that jokes absolutely help to get into a better mood. "For example, when I was stressed about how frustrating it can be to see your design fail as you watch people test it out and your assumptions become evident, it can feel [difficult]. When you see something that perfectly expresses how you are feeling, it's very therapeutic," he said.
I would like to have more plants but i can never remember to take care of them.
Right? I can't have a plant until they learn to yell and follow me around when they're thirsty. 😺
Load More Replies...My daughter works at Google and she invited me to their “Take Your Dad to Work Day”. I get there and I say where are all the other Dads. She bursts out laughing and said she made it up so I’d spend the day with her. Oh well, the free food was good and I got to take a nap.
When you work so much you have no time for a family...tragic honestly....
My thoughts exactly. Where are all the doggos?
Load More Replies...Hey that's a great idea for places where the cube walls are that low.
I just read a comment from a guy who said he was not qualified to apply for a job because they required 5 years experience with a software program that HE INVENTED 2 years ago. 😂
I love that reporter. He was just awesome in that interview and I'm so happy he gets to live forever in meme form.
I've read a lot of reasons why companies do this -- in the U.S. many companies put ludicrous requirements in the employment ads because they don't want to hire anyone but want to tell their employees they are -- or they only want to get less expensive immigrants so they don't want any domestic employees to apply anyway, but have to justify why they're asking for the visas (no one local will apply for our jobs! Because they're lazy and hate working for a living!!). Another source of this is some people relying solely on their HR teams to look for new hires and not giving them any detailed guidance on what to actually look for so the HR people just make something up.
That the release of iOS 13, there are older iOS versions… starting with iOS 4 in 2010.
It says 2007, which is before 2010. The caption that says IOS 13 is literally an example picture of IOS 13 from the wiki encompassing all of IOS. You just read it incorrectly. The meme is from 2020.
Load More Replies...everyone's faking it and nobody is making it - the world we live in...
Load More Replies...In this picture: (Top): Windows 1.0-2.0, (Bottom, left to right): Windows 3.x, OS/2, Windows 95. Not pictured (levitating high above): Windows 98.
I didn't know that men could do that. Well welcome to the world of 92% of us women
Load More Replies...Here in Stockholm we just call it "syndrom" tho.
Load More Replies...Or maybe they just don't have a terrible job. Some people's jobs are related to their hobby/passion. Also, working can mean different things. If you're a travel journalist, then "working" could simply mean travelling!!
So, doing the math, if you get no days off, 80 hours in one week comes out to roughly 11.5 hours per day. Assuming two days off, that's 16 hours a day. That means there's 8 hours left during those working days to do anything else. So those people working 16 hour days are likely sleep deprived during their working days, neglecting their friends and / or family, and unable to complete things around the house. They're probably eating a lot of convenience food because they don't have the time or energy to actually cook anything during the week. Regardless of whether that time is spent in an office or in transit.
Load More Replies...I don't love the system. I do love bringing home a comfortable six figures though.
Workers of the world unite! We have nothing to lose but our chains! 🖤❤️
Sounds like socialism, and communism, and pretty much every organization that has ever existed.
And Babich also agrees with this line of thinking. He mentioned that he recently researched anxiety and depression in product design, and found that it’s a serious problem in the field. "I think humor is an integral part of our lives, and we need to smile more when we work," he added. "A positive mood gives us an energy boost, protects us from anxiety, and helps us create good UX."
So it’s not surprising that category-specific meme accounts are becoming more and more popular. Such images and jokes are the perfect "bites" of content that always allow us to distract ourselves from our troubles. After all, there’s nothing like looking at a few hilarious pictures to improve our mood.
the checkerboard pattern being part of the image itself instead of being transparent...
Load More Replies...whoever designed fake transparent images, I have a special finger for you...
MANY times I've tried to download a .png file only to find it is actually a .jpg file.
Online background removers have come in clutch for me too many times to count!
6606499f1e5c84d7c30 - Copy - Copy - Copy - Copy - Copy - Copy - Copy - Copy.png
Load More Replies...Computer: there is a file with that name already Me: adds a bunch of random characters Computer: there is a file with that name already
This is a very underrated comment. Take this upvote.
Load More Replies...Unfortunately that's often the way it goes. Then they complain that they don't like the results. 🙄
Load More Replies...And then this happens: You send the logo-FINAL4.psd to a designer and he responds: So could you please send it as an ai file. (You f......amateur)
I'm a court reporter and was told in school by my teachers to never go back and look at old transcripts again after you finish them. I had a copy order come in for a transcript I'd produced years before and made the mistake of looking through it. 😬 They were minor things that only I would notice but I wanted to fix them so bad!
Load More Replies...I recently read the first draft of the novel I'm writing and I wanted to hide in a while it was so cringe.
My favorite thing to say about someone else's work wtf was he thinking. I really love it when I dig into code and think that and discover it is my own.
Most people feel like that looking back on thier younger years. The whole what was I thinking syndrome, that seems to hit ten years after the fact.
The designer can design anything they want, but if it isn't technically feasible or is prohibitively expensive you have to do what you have to do.
Was gonna say the same! Technical feasibility is often lost on designers and ends up causing a total loss in translation to screen. Throwing so much shade at devs in this post! Just remember: garbage in, garbage out.
Load More Replies...this picture is such a great analogy, since the work required to redo the plumbing behind the toilet correctly would've taken 10x as much time to do
Right. Whoever made the final decision here was most likely making a decision between "rip out part of the wall and what's behind it to rearrange the waste pipe, then clean up and re-tile, *then* install the toilet - cost: lots of extra money and resources" and "just align the toilet in accordance with the waste pipe - cost: some extra length of pipe and the fact that the toilet alignment looks weird".
Load More Replies...Great for after a heavy night on the booze, just need a pillow and rest your head on the wall
There's a toilet paper cover?! That actually is something I would buy!
right, the first picture is on the wall of the second, labeled "goals"
Load More Replies...I'm more frightened by how the heading captions don't have punctuation and don't actually line up with the picture.
They've gotten slightly better with this. Now in addition to the "turn in a quarter mile" it usually says "take next turn" too
He clearly has no f*****g idea what he is talking about.
Load More Replies...Also, were gonna hire some more vice presidents at 10x the price of the people who actually do the work and that'll fix everything.
Every company: No not like that. Try our one-free-microwave-pizza-slice Wednesdays.
Yep. hold "wellness" workshops that we can't attend because we're already putting in 80 hours a week.
If you're gonna drag people back into the office, at least pay them for their commute time and gas mileage.
February is similar, sigh. Hey, here is an idea, how about year round?
If we built buildings like developers wrote code, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization. (and I am a developer/engineer/admin/whatever needs to be done to get the new version out...)
It means User Experience. UX design is deciding how the user is going to navigate inside an app or website, from which screen/page to which screen/page, what happens after each user action (click, swipe...), and so on. A related term is UI design : User Interface design, it's designing the screens / forms / pages themselves.
Load More Replies...Bless the designer at my husband’s company, he’s talented and smart but sometimes his vision gets ahead of what is possible for a startup team on a startup timetable. He’d be like,” I think we should put the sink here, this is where is would look best and be easy for users to get to. “ Followed by my dev husband being like, “I mean, we COULD, it would look nice, but you’d end up with this.” Followed by probably an explanation of why they don’t have time to movethe outlet.
HA! i saw it BP. i saw the dirty word. youre not slick.
Load More Replies...Then 1 month later: "Hey you know how I said that the project you laid out and designed and I approved of was great? Juuuust kidding, we hate it and need you to make a bunch of urgent changes immediately!"
Being good at designing something doesn't mean you're good at organizing or keeping track of information or communicating or delegating tasks or all the millions of other things that come with projects that aren't the actual project itself. Project managers do all that for you!
Exactly. Some people are better at the art side but struggle with organization, emails, communication, etc. Project managers ensure the client receives the type of communication they expect while keeping the artsy people on track. We need both for a successful agency. To Hannah, obviously these designers I'm speaking of can handle basic organization and communication. I mean, they're not all mute idiots. They're just not the best at those skills so why not have two employees who do their tasks extremely well instead of one employee who falters on one side but is excellent on the other?
Load More Replies...Galious 1 week ago It means User Experience. UX design is deciding how the user is going to navigate inside an app or website, from which screen/page to which screen/page, what happens after each user action (click, swipe...), and so on. A related term is UI design : User Interface design, it's designing the screens / forms / pages themselves.
Don’t know this person but I copy pasted their answer cause it’s awesome and easy to understand
Load More Replies...My husband is an engineer, so I have seen the other side of this, which looks like this: Designer: So I designed the bench, and I think it would look great here. Engineer: Uh, that’s maybe not the best spot…. Designer: Nah I think it’ll be fine. Engineer: *sighs* oookay… Spongebob Narrator Voice: A few days later Designer: So I have some feedback about the bench placement. Engineer: I bet you do.
This looks more like engineering failed to give design all the necessary environmental parameters.
Leave me alone hooman, I found my true calling as a bleating potato!
This is our safety committee meeting every month. It is pointless and nothing is ever accomplished in these meetings. Every idea I have for holding people accountable is met with, "Well we can't do that because the union " I now spend my time trying to get kicked of the safety committee.
Sometimes fish need transporting. They aren't just doing it for lols.
Load More Replies...I would only eat the one on the right... So it would no longer exist, I would be fed, and the first one would be preservec because it is to beautiful to be destroyed.
I think I understand what's happening here—I think??? I'm pretty sure that's a giant f*cking pencil sharpener with a cucumber in it and this lady put the sharpened cucumber scraps on her face and is now eating the sharpened cucumber.... it leaves me with more questions than it answers
Only names developers.. yeah right. I have been in the situation several times where the CEO has named all the designers, and the freelancer by name and skipped me and the other devs.
How about no gradient at all. Just present the information in a clear, concise and properly formatted manner. Buttons should be buttons and text boxes should be text boxes, ill-defined white squares really aren't obvious or helpful to anyone. I would prefer entirely different UX for desktop and mobile platforms. Instead of something that looks good on a small screen and is optimized for touch, and something that looks good on a large one and is optimized for mouse and keyboard we have one single thing that sucks everywhere.
Oh my god! There's a F O R B I D D E N word on this! My eyes! How will I go on living?!
Too bad most of them have nothing to do with the headline
Load More Replies..."The Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman. It's a 20+ Year old book, probably dated in some parts, but still worth a read.
These are good... but what happened to the bad design memes. We need more of those 😁
Young people today have a huge opportunity to set themselves apart from their peers by simply showing up for work and showing initiative.
Old people today have the same opportunity, though most people are pretty pleased when someone over 50 just isn't actively trying to make everyone else feel bad to cover for their own lost sense of self.
Load More Replies...Too bad most of them have nothing to do with the headline
Load More Replies..."The Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman. It's a 20+ Year old book, probably dated in some parts, but still worth a read.
These are good... but what happened to the bad design memes. We need more of those 😁
Young people today have a huge opportunity to set themselves apart from their peers by simply showing up for work and showing initiative.
Old people today have the same opportunity, though most people are pretty pleased when someone over 50 just isn't actively trying to make everyone else feel bad to cover for their own lost sense of self.
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