Design! What makes Good/Bad designs?

Nitin Pal
UX Planet
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4 min readJun 25, 2021

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Here’s what about design, and how design can be categorized as a good/bad design?

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Design!!
What is design? —Design is more into creativity but at the same time, solving problems in a very minimalistic way toward the betterment and approach of the future.

Factor affect designing is typography, layout, color scheme, background, pattern, etc

The design does not always have a fixed shape, size, or form. It can be anything but yes, designing ideas can be changed from person to person, a place to place, and from culture to culture keeping the requirement same. We divided a design into two parts a good design and a bad design.

There are various factors to judge a design based on customer excitement, functionality, and satisfaction (like in automobile design, application (UI) design, product design, etc) when user interacting with the product (UX).

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Okay, When we talk about design, many people thought design is an art and guess you are not wrong it is of course an art but it’s not a whole art piece to keep inside a museum. What I want to say that ‘ Art is design but every design is not an art’.

What you see over your surrounding, there is a design everywhere in everything through from your pencil to a books, mobile to a laptop, jeans to a t-shirt, couch to a bed like a everywhere in everything. All this comes under a different category of design through related to a different field like fashion designing, interior designing, architecture designing, product designing, automobile designing, etc.

“Design is everything, in everything.”

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#I want to show you some examples of what is good and what is a bad design In my surrounding. Wheather In my opinion, I always observe that no design is perfect for a long period of time, it needs to be updated/upgraded with technologies.

Philips shaving trimmer
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As you can see that Philips trimmer is very famous in the market because of its innovative product. As I need one good trimmer, so went to the store to buy it. There I find this good-looking and very attractive trimmer with a lot of features. So, I decided to buy it but after uses 2 to 3 times it's not cutting even single hair, the device is still functional but the blades are worst. Overall the device is good but in functionality, it's not satisfying me and that’s why it's a bad user experience.

Figaro olive oil
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Olive oil by Figaro, Good design it can place any with a minimum height of the surface, the nozzle wouldn’t affect the height as it can go inside the bottle and also in packaging doesn't need any extra space, easy to handle as it is in a smaller size and easy to use.

Door stopper
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The design of a door stopper is totally different from each other, but both work the same. One is more efficient to stop a door tightly because of the magnetic power and the other one is a normal door stopper with a rubber grip, which sometimes didn’t work, the reason is by daily uses the rubber grip gets smoother n unable to hold the door.

Boat airpodes
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Boat Airdopes 171 & 511 V2, The design of AirPods is smooth, elegant, small in size easy to carry anywhere, fit to the ear. When we compared to a wired handsfree and the Bluetooth airdrops, the Bluetooth airdrop is a good design as compared to wired handsfree because wired handsfree is hard to handling while running or exercising, easily breaking wire, loose connection but in Bluetooth device the no such issue.

Thank you for reading and connect with me & share your thoughts.

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