Bad Design: video worksheets, diferentiated.

A trove of cautionary tales for your design or art students. Thirty well-meaning but ultimately unfortunate designs: unforeseen problems, uncanny valley, user-hostile, poor specs, but mostly just plain UGLY: Fiat Multipla, Walkie Talkie skyscraper, Boeing-Vertol Model 235, 2014 Colombian Women’s Cycling uniforms, NASA Helios Prototype, Apple Macintosh TV, Bentley’s Ego laptop, The National Library of Kosovo, Johammer J1, Hanson Robotics’ Sophie, Bangkok’s Elephant Building, LingsCars.com website, Mercedes Urbanetic, Voronoi mega-yacht, Northrop Tacit Blue, Lego mini-figures, Sonic the Hedgehog film, Castilla-La Mancha Park footbridge, Jang WooSeok’s Take Kiss Out coffee lids, SolidAlliance Choikawadeco Mouse, Trautwein’s Yin Yang Couple Bathtub, Jyo John Mulloor motorbike helmets, Pierced Glasses, The Face Slimmer Exercise Mouthpiece, Boeing 707 Phalcon, Aero Spacelines Super Guppy, Dual LCD screen phone, Ronnie Van Hout’s “Quasi”, Reliant’s Bond Bug, Voight V-173.

Find the film by searching YouTube’s BE AMAZED channel for “Ugliest Design Mistakes Ever Made”.

14 questions for the 21-min film. Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files.