25 Design Disasters That People Couldn’t Believe This Week (September 15, 2025)

Every once in a while, I stumble across a design that makes me stop and think, “How did this even get approved?” This week, the internet delivered a fresh batch of truly baffling choices.

While I’m scratching my head, I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry, so I’ll just scroll and laugh at these design fails.

1. “Designed to fail!”

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2. “I left the union under the tadpole”

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3. “Terrible design for a hand gel i got as a freebie from a rep”

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4. “Timberland? What the heck.”

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5. “Which direction opens it? The arrows go the same direction…”

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6. “Drano suggests to use 1/3 of a bottle, but markings on the side are in 1/4 increments”

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7. “Sorry, what am I allowed to do between 3pm and 8pm?”

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8. “Hideaway bathroom behind stairwell”

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9. “Don’t get KO’d”

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10. “Courtesy costs nothing”

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11. “They became the very thing they swore to destroy”

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12. “Don’t dump babies in toilet”

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13. “Passive aggressive stop sign”

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14. “Can’t read anything in this inflight magazine”

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15. “The orbit of erath moon”

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16. “Imagine going in and they ask you to leave”

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17. “So direct but it gets a point across”

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18. “This locksmith knows how to promote”

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19. “Leaping Cats!”

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20. “I found this at work”

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21. “I always prefer my White Cheddar be Booty Aged”

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22. “Fried Chicken Restaurant in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.”

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23. “Make up your mind”

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24. “All of my favorite things to do.”

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25. “I should hope so…”

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