3rd Annual Bad Designs on Campus Contest!
October was National Ergonomics Month, and to celebrate, the U of M student chapter of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) hosted the third annual Bad Designs On Campus (BDOC) competition.
HFES student chapter members voted on their favorite submissions, according to the following criteria:
- Originality of bad design choice and proposed solution
- Applicability to principles of Human Factors and Ergonomics – is it a bad design based on these principles?
- Severity of the bad design – how seriously/urgently does the current design need attention?
- Practicality of the proposed solution – in terms of appropriateness, feasibility, cost effectiveness, implementation simplicity, etc.
$100 in gift certificate prizes were awarded to the winners from each genre (text/graphic genre and video genre).
Winning submissions
1st Place, video submissions:
Printer Touch Screen - Neal Wiggermann, Industrial and Operations Engineering
1st Place, Text/graphic submissions:
Which One is for Which??? - Alvin Pranata, Alvin Steven, and Ricky Taslim, Industrial and Operations Engineering
2nd Place, Text/graphic submissions:
Math Classrooms Not Designed To Teach Math? - Katherine Stone, Industrial and Operations Engineering
Honorable Mentions:
A Waste of Time! ---Plant Operations Time Reporting Software - Mike Mullins, Industrial and Operations Engineering
The Long Way Around - David Johnson, Mechanical Engineering
Other submissions
CGhost Scrollbar
Are You Sure You're Short Enough?
Handicap buttons through building entrances
The Magic Desk
A Bad De“Sign” - Getting Rescued, Good Luck
Michigan Dorms: Not Designed by Michigan Architects
When Opening a Door Requires a hsuP
Play "Run & Slide" at UofM
Lauded Dining Hall Experience is Ruined Again by China (Dishes)
Turn the Empty Reflection Pool Into an Ice Rink!
Your Shoulder Says: “OUCHHH!!! &%@^%%$*!!!! IT HURTSSS!!!”
Squeaky FXB Chairs
2007 winners:
Trapped in class (text/graphic submission)
Cyberstations (video submission)