- [Narrator] Modern designs should be aesthetically pleasing,
practical, functional, or none of these things depending on how much you hate humanity. From playgrounds that
have clearly been designed by people who despise children, to toilets with very threatening auras, nowhere is safe from the
blight of bad design. With that, let's take a look at even more designers
who need to go straight to hell for their ideas. (gentle music) Have you ever bought a product with one of those little
plastic windows in the packaging that gives you a glimpse of what's inside? Allows you to see exactly what, you're buying doesn't it? Makes you trust the product inside right? Well, not always, as
one poor kid discovered. They received Shimmer
And Sparkles Really Big Shamala Bracelet Set for their birthday. But when they pulled the
plastic tray out from the box they were greeted with this. How misleading is the
size of this plastic tray in box compared to the
pitiful amount of beads it actually contains? Now, I didn't think any designer in their right mind
would be this heartless. And so I figured it must be photoshopped but no, other listings of this kit online show the
exact same waste of plastic. With a design that deceptive, I think this company might
need to change their name to Shammer And Sparkle. Now I can just about forgive the crimes designers commit against regular products, but I can't forgive those who mess with my perception of food
through its packaging. For example, take a look at
this delicious Kobe beef steak. Kobe beef is from Kobe, Japan, and is one of the highest quality beefs out there with an average steak
costing roughly $200. But this steak was less than $30 according to
Reddit poster Rawghi. Hmm, I wonder why. Oh, oh, I see. They just used the packaging sleeve to hide the empty section, making it look like this was way more
than there actually was. So it seems like a bargain until you get home and
slide that sleeve off to reveal all the disappointment
to waiting beneath. I bet it's never even been to Kobe either. When it comes to food, I
always know where I stand with a cream cheese and salad bagel or at least I thought I did. After seeing this, I'm no longer sure. From one angle, it looks full of filling but whoever made it just
stuffed one side to make it seem like a fulfilling meal. I thought I had trust
issues before but now. Considering I can't go
right with meat or dairy, maybe I should go vegan. This vegan mince seems like the real deal. It even promises an incredible hack. Or maybe that's just
referring to the packaging considering this is how
much mince you actually get. You might be thinking it's
just been squished down. Nope, the wax paper underneath reveals this is exactly how much
mince you are meant to get. Like vegan food wasn't
enough of a joke already. Speaking of jokes, if
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subscribe buttons down below. All right shameless self plug over, what design crime have we got next? Our society isn't great at adapting to the needs of those with disabilities. And before you start arguing
down in the comments, feast your eyes on this
incredible design fail. This is tactile paving,
designed to help guide those with visual impairments to the road. Except the path unhelpfully
interrupted by a massive bench. Forget being designed
to help the disabled. This path seems to have been designed to give someone a
disability, as has this one. Apparently this is meant to be
some sort of wheelchair ramp but I don't believe that for an instant. First this thing is so steep, it'd be impossible to control
your speed on the way down. And second, it's a good foot
off the ground at the end, meaning anyone wheeling down
here would be flung straight into that wall. So either this has a
totally different purpose or it's been made for
some extreme wheelchairing while that last image
might have made the stairs look like a safe option, these stairs look like
they lead straight to hell. The patterns make it impossible
to see where one step stops and the next one starts. I think I'll take my chances on the wheelchair ramp
of certain death, thanks. A bathroom should be a relaxing space where you can get on with
your business in peace. This was not a thought shared by whoever designed the stalls
of these toilets however. Why have the doors been installed so high up that they give a full
view of anyone sitting down on the john, what was
the thought process here? Now I know American toilet
cubicles have absurdly wide gaps built into them to
make mopping the floor easier and to discourage people from
doing naughty things in there but with a gap this high why bother attaching the door at all? Although it could always be worse over at the Wrocław University
of Science and Technology This designer decided that the entire outside
world needed not only a view but also a seat for the bathroom show. For such a prestigious university, you'd think they'd have
designed their toilets a little smarter, or less
pervy at the very least. But no matter how freaky
public bathrooms may be they'll never compare to the weirdness you'll find inside some homes
like whatever's going on here. Reddit user Elsy8 was viewing a house when they spotted this God awful
excuse for an en-suite bathroom whoever built it clearly
didn't assume privacy would ever be an issue or creepiness. Imagine taking a shower while someone else was using the toilet. I prefer to keep a little
mystery in my relationships. Thank you very much. While private bathroom design can be bad, the men among us know that public urinal design
can get so much worse, case in point, this nightmare. Apparently this is someone's freshly remodeled work bathroom. I really hope there were more
than just two urinals there. Otherwise two desperate
work buddies might end up cheek to cheek, trying
not to cross the streams. For all the ladies out there
who might not understand, and trust me when I say this
is way too close for comfort. Okay, that last design
might have just been a slight oversight, but it's
hard to see how the design of this urinal was ever approved for use. The parts of the bowl protecting our shoes from drips have been removed. It's been designed like this
to encourage men to get closer to the bowl so that the
drips don't go everywhere. Okay, that's pretty logical thinking, but then surely anyone using it
just gets a lot of splash back. So instead of getting pee on the floor you get pee all over your legs. Brilliant, I hate it. But the best worst toilet designs of all are those built on
major misjudgments like this. It's not entirely clear what
the line of thinking was here. Maybe this cubicle is too
tiny to put the toilet against the wall. Maybe the waist hole in the
floor had already been cut out and the plumber forgot to account for the size of the cistern. Well, whatever it was, simply cutting two huge
holes into the wall is some serious redneck engineering. I mean the water and moisture leaking into the walls is gonna make
this one massive mold farm in just a few months. Well, that was clearly a crap idea. And somehow that's not even the worst of these tragic toilet designs. Back in 2017 the Silute
Vydunas Gymnasium in Lithuania released these photos of
its new toilet facilities safe to say the internet
freaked out, no partitions no privacy, and worst
of all, no toilet roll. What the heck did this
gymnasium expected its patrons to do lock eyes
with the people on the bulls opposite them as they
gingerly take off a sock? Thankfully, no, these toilets
had just been installed and we're waiting on their
water to be connected and their stalls to be built around them. Lucky for Lithuania. Elsewhere in the world,
simple oversights can lead to some seriously awkward urinal designs. This urinal has been rotated 90 degrees to the other two on either
side of it for some reason. So whoever's brave enough to use it isn't just showing off their junk to the world from the side, they're also peeking over
into their neighbor's stall. That's pretty pervy no
matter how you look at it. For all the public restroom designs that make you uncomfortable, there are a few private ones
that are downright cursed. Over in Mexico, Hernandez
Silva Arquitectos designed a penthouse perched on top of an old colonial building which had a huge 15 story
lift shaft built into it. Most normal architects
would've bricked it up or maybe converted it into a storage space but this studio decided
to build a bathroom over it and insert a glass floor. Anyone on the porcelain
throne would've been faced with a 150 foot drop straight down. Well it'll scare the (squeak)
out of you, that's for sure. As bad as toilet designs can be, basins can be even worse. Over in England, one office decided that their bathroom sinks didn't need to be big
and so made what looks like child sized basins
for their adult employees. What is this a sink for ants? Or maybe that guy just
has really big hands. What do you think? Let me know down in the comments. A weirdly small sink isn't
the worst issue you could have in a public bathroom though. You could walk into a toilet
and be confronted with this. I really wish I had an answer for why someone thought this
was an okay thing to create but I don't. All I can say is no matter
how bad the mess you make in that bathroom is, it'll never
be worth washing your hands in that sink. While that last sink was overtly terrible, and this one makes me itch
for a different reason. Why would someone build
a cabinet at that angle so that it pokes out in
the middle of the room? Perhaps this is my need for
neatness shining through but I hate that it isn't
built against the wall like the rest of them. When this was posted to Reddit,
a kitchen designer commented that this person likely
bought a dishwasher without checking the size of it and tried to jam it in there,
after realizing it didn't fit and that remodeling the
cabinets would be pricey, they just stuck it in at an angle and pretended like nothing was wrong. Well, I'm sorry to say that it was wrong. So wrong. Maybe even the worst. Wait, no, that's not the
worst because this exists. Okay, stay with me so that it feels less like
I'm having a stroke. But I think the reason someone did this is because of a water supply issue. In order to get a washing machine to work it has to be connected to a
water supply and drainage pipe. However, if you have
limited water supply points in your property, but still
really want a washing machine you have to compromise. And so that I'm guessing
is why this person has a washing machine linked to their bathroom that now lives in their wall. On the plus side, their
house now has a vibrate mode. Now you'd assume playgrounds
would be pretty easy to design. Just throw in a few monkey
bars, slides, and teeter totters and you're good to go, unless you've hired a total psychopath to build your playground in
which case you get slides like this, I feel so
sorry for every little boy that tried this derpy
slide out, ooh, ouch. Why wouldn't you just stick with a normal slide that has slides? You know, something like, actually I take it back,
that's not a slide, it's a death drop. You can just about see
from the lines of paint on the legs that it has been
pulled out of the ground. If those were in the ground I imagine the slide itself would be at a more reasonable angle. So it would look less like a death trap. This on the other hand is hard to justify. No matter how I look at it looks like it was designed to be a straight 90 degree drop, a playground ride called
baby's first head injury maybe? Well, even if that kid
did bump their noggin playing on that slide, it'd be better than the headache they'd get
from looking at this thing. It looks like Mr. Banana here
really shouldn't be allowed within 100 feet of any public playground. Thanks to that wildly
inappropriate slide placement but it could always be worse. Thanks to the power of Photoshop. Oh God, who even thinks of these things? A cheese grater slide? I wouldn't wish this on my
worst enemy, let alone a kid. And while it doesn't actually
exist, it's almost better than playground features
that do exist like this. Okay, maybe I went to
different playgrounds than everyone else when I was a kid but I have no idea what
this is meant to be. Is it a really weird bench, part of some strange game, a cry for help? What am I looking at here, please? Someone, anyone tell me what this is down in the comments below. As bad as that bizarre
bench thing is though it's not as suggestive as
this poor bounce house pirate, seems he's suffering from a
little cutlass dysfunction if you know what I mean. He's not getting enough
air into his blow up sword and he really couldn't be holding it in a worse place, could he? Working out is a great way
to improve your fitness, change your body shape and get ripped. You know what it can't
do? Change your race. Although that didn't stop an old business called Fast Fitness over in
Australia from advertising that it can, there was either
a monumental miscommunication between this gym and
the advertising agency or this is the before versus after transformation of the century. Science says that people with more symmetrical
faces are considered more attractive compared to those
like me who are unsymmetrical. I'm sure there's some truth to that but when you're confronted with it on a shop display like this
it's hilariously unnerving. Fortunately, this is just a mirror image of one side of this model's face, not a man's attempt to create
the perfect woman gone wrong. Imagine seeing this weirdly wide face on the side of these shelves assuming it was just a design
flaw before turning around and seeing woman with this
exact face standing next to you. Holy cow. Ever needed to lock your
door to get a little privacy? Well, be thankful you
don't live in this house, despite not having one, but two locks, the mastermind who installed
these locks failed to consider that this is a sliding door. Yep, no privacy to be found
here, unless this family paid for someone to install
the illusion of privacy. In which case, money well spent. Is there anything more frustrating than when products come
in redundant packaging? Like when Amazon delivers what you ordered in a box 100 times the size of the product or when you buy something that
turns out to be mostly empty it's just been made to seem like there'll be much more product inside. Well, one of our amazing viewers James Innes might have found
the worst example of them all. He sent me through this photo of some medication he has to take. The only thing is it's one
pill that comes with not one not two, but four different
layers of packaging. What's so wrong with the blister pack? Why does each pill have to
be individually packaged and protected like this? I know children that don't receive as many layers of protection
as these pills do. Is there a super important medical reason for this that I don't know about? Let me know down in the comments. As wasteful as that pill packaging was I think I might have found
something even worse. This is supposed to be a pot of eyeliner but the amount of eyeliner that's actually in here is that coin sized
divot that barely makes up one third of the tub while having a bigger pot
helps people keep hold of it. Why wouldn't the company? Just fill the whole pot with eyeliner instead of
wasting all that space. Why does this make me so mad? I don't even wear eyeliner,
at least not on weekdays. Speaking of eyeliner the big black eyes and adorable features of the Panda makes it a
perfect animal to turn into a variety of merchandise. But when this person bought
some fun looking Panda candy they were left tasting disappointment which (squeak) designer
thought only printing a Panda on the see through
packaging was a good idea? Without it, there's literally no way to tell this was ever
meant to be a Panda pop. I guess this designer was
sick of panda-ing consumers. Have you ever picked something up and used it before realizing
it was something else? Yeah, I've ended up with shaving cream in my
pits rather than deodorant more times than I can count. Not the end of the world,
but picking this up thinking it was a tasty
beverage and trying to drink It. Definitely would be. Even though the color and name makes it look like a
delicious orange drink this is actually floor cleaner. Ah, yes, the forbidden orange juice. Now with the added taste of bleach. To become a licensed architect, you need to take several exams and have a hard earned
degree under your belt. So you'd expect most architects
to be pretty smart, right? Well maybe the one who designed this house in Indianapolis was just having a bad day. They designed it to have two sets of double doors at the
front, pretty odd choice but necessary seeing how
one of them is blocked off entirely by a huge set of stairs. What I wouldn't give to see the look on the architect's face when
they realized what they'd done. Kind of makes you wonder what else might be wrong
with this place still. That's not as bad as some of the designs you find
in public buildings. This school managed to
install a fan in the ceiling without realizing the blades
were hilariously obstructed. Maybe that's not actually a fan. Maybe it's the school's
self-destruct device, with the push of a button, the fan tears
through those support beams and brings down the whole school. Hey, problem solved. Well, we can only hope that the same sort of self-destruct mechanism
is in place at this mall. Otherwise I might tear it
apart brick by brick myself. Why on God's green earth would you install a row
of lights like that? Was it so hard to space them
evenly and make them line up? The part of me that likes
neat tidy lines is screaming incoherently deep down in my soul. While that lighting design
was nothing but chaos, at least an attempt at
effort was made here. There are still public
buildings like schools and libraries that have wall clocks hooked up to their mains system. Great if you often forget
to change the batteries, horrible if something needs to be inserted in front of them, like
a whacking great pole whoever spent their time
painting over that pole and adding in the clock,
numbers has more patience and understanding than I ever will. I wonder if the person who
created those unmovable clocks also decided just not to move this sign found inside the Minneapolis
St. Paul International Airport, it seems a little temporary building work and an entirely imovable sign led to this incredible compromise. I'd like to assume that people
are smart enough to figure out what the sign says. But I imagine airport staff get asked for directions a lot while
this sign isn't in full view. And while we're on the topic of airports have you ever booked a window seat on a plane only to be greeted with a noticeable lack of window? Well, if you didn't know
already booking a window seat doesn't guarantee you'll get a window. If you're flying economy,
you should know your part of the plane has been designed
to fit the most people in per flight possible. This allows the airlines to
make the most money possible as such Aircrafts have
been refitted and modified over the years to fit
more rows of seats in. So their windows don't always line up with the rows of seats inside. Looks like I'll be booking
aisle seats from here on. Have you ever been so hot in a room that you've
thrown all the windows open? Well, while you enjoy your
breeze, spare a thought for the poor guy who had
these two windows installed in his home, closed they look fine but only one can ever open at a time thanks to the way they've been placed. What a pain, get it? Window pane? Yeah, you can't hate me more
than I already hate myself. At this point, almost everyone alive knows what this is, a lateral flow test. After swabbing your nostrils
and tonsils, you dunk your swab into some sterile solution,
pop a few drops on this thing. And within a couple of minutes, you know if you've got the dreaded COVID-19. One line good, two lines
bad, you all know the drill. But have you ever wondered what lies beyond the plastic casing? Because opening it up
is pretty surprising. There's just one teeny tiny strip of paper in all that plastic,
considering that billions of these tests have been
taken all around the world and that only negative
ones can be recycled. That's a massive waste
of plastic, isn't it? Despite looking like a big
middle finger to the environment these tests have actually been
very purposefully designed. The strip works best when
laid level, the results can be easily interpreted
the drops always land in a specific location
and it's large enough so that even those who are old or have disabilities can
handle them with ease. Pretty ingenious to think
a product has been designed with so many factors in mind. Even if the environment
does hate us for it. Which of these designers did
you think deserves to suffer for their crimes against common sense? And have you witnessed any
design crimes of your own? Let me know down in the
comments below and as always, thanks for watching.
