53 Horrifying Design Choices That Prove Some People Just Want To Watch The World Burn

1.Who thought this was a good idea??? SATAN?

Man descending a unique narrow open staircase with no railing, made up of staggered bookshelves that eventually lead into a desk
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2.Cooking — now classified as an extreme sport!

A stovetop with burnt dials captioned "oven vents directly onto the knobs, making them discolored and burning hot to the touch"
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3.Accessing an ATM — now also an extreme sport if you're a wheelchair user!

an extremely steep wheelchair ramp outside a bank ATM
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4.Great, now we're punishing blind people by burning their fingers when they try to read Braille.

Caution sign on a hot surface next to instructions in Braille that are too hot to touch
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5.And this sign just feels like a cruel joke for anyone with visual impairments.

"Delta Gamma Center for Children with Visual Impairments" written on the side of a building in extremely hard to read text
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6.What is this, a funhouse?

stairs that give the illusion of a flat floor
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7.Seriously, what monster came up with the idea to combine stairs and optical illusions?

Patterned floor tiles on a staircase that make it difficult to tell where each step is
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8.I...don't think I like what's going on here.

Three urinals next to a water fountain in a restroom, seemingly with a tube to connect the urinals to the fountain
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9.This wheelchair ramp has to have been designed by Jigsaw himself.

Outdoor ramps with handrails criss-crossing and zig-zagging in a confusing manner
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10.Same with this shower. What is the point of this hole???

shower with open square hole at the bottom, colored tiles, and a high entrance around it, making it difficult to get in
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11.Whoever designed this WANTS to see us suffer!!!

Hand holds a partially open jar of arthritis cream, showing a protective seal that's difficult to open, captioned "putting this on arthritis cream is such a cruel joke"
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12.Like living on the edge? Install this light and enjoy never knowing if your yard may catch aflame and engulf your home!

Tall globe lamp in a backyard next to a burnt arc of grass with text saying the light is burning the grass as the sun shines through it
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13.What's even the point of the left door here besides causing injury???

View from above of a stairway leading to double front doors with decorative glass panels; the left door opens over the staircase down instead of the landing
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14.Whoever designed this created a new high-stakes sport: swing jousting.

two weathered swings across from each other, very close, so that two kids using them at the same time would hit each other
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15.This floor was 100% designed by a pervert.

View from below of a glass floor in a restaurant, with text "hope you're not wearing a skirt"
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16.So was this.

view from a urinal of the interior of a stall
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17.And this.

Hotel room with a giant window right into the bathroom
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18.Make this make sense!!!

Sign with a wheelchair symbol, reads: "Curbside voting available. Request within" — except you can't get in if you use a wheelchair
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19.Finally, the perfect keyboard for people who love playing Russian Roulette with their open documents.

Close-up of a computer keyboard, showing a power button that shuts the computer off without warning right next to the other keys so that it's easy to hit accidentally
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20.Who doesn't want a little pain with their door opening?

A hand attempts to turn a door handle, but there isn't enough space for their hand; the text points out it crushes your fingers if you grab it normally
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21.As someone who always has to get up to use the bathroom at around 3 a.m., I'd hit my shin on this nightly.

Bed leg with sharp edges facing outwards
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22.This feels like a death trap from Final Destination.

slanted roof with sharp ice that slides off and falls onto the sidewalk below
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23.I have a few questions for the designer of this bench. Mostly...WHY?

Unusual bench design with two horizontal wooden bars on metal legs, set in a park beside a paved path and a wire fence, surrounded by trees
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24.Cool, another design that just makes life that much more difficult.

Car wash payment kiosk with a screen that's way too high to use while you're in your car
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25.There is one reason, and one reason only, to design a kickball you can't kick: inflicting pain on your fellow human beings.

Close-up of a kickball that's labeled "Not for kicking"; text reads "that would explain why my ankle hurts"
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26.This door is just asking for a fatality.

giant library with a door opening out onto nothing, multiple floors up
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27.This is just cruel. Imagine there being a fire, and you can see the exact thing you need to put it out, but you can't access it.

stairs with safety railing cutting off access to fire extinguisher
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28.Good luck accessing this emergency tool, too. You need the hammer — which is behind the glass.

Emergency break glass panel with hammer inside, labeled "to obtain hammer break glass"
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29.The only logical purpose for this stair design is to work as a Home Alone-style trap for home intruders.

Indoors hallway with wooden floors; there is no landing, and the two hallways converge at a staircase that is lower than the floor
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30.Just...why?

Small studio apartment with a lofted bed over a stairwell
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31.Aesthetic design has gone too far!

"Floating" stone steps in a garden attached to a wall on one side with no railing
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32.Stairs should not have gaps between them!!!

Bare feet stand on rustic wooden stairs, viewed from above, showing large gaps between steps
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33.We don't need to reinvent the wheel with stairs, people! Just make them normal!!!

A wooden staircase with an unusual split design, leading to multiple directions
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34.BRING BACK NORMAL STAIRS!

Curved staircase leading downward, poorly connected to a straight staircase on one side
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35.I know there are railings, but this still feels like a death trap.

View from above shows a multi-level shopping mall with an extremely long escalator that opens to below on both sides
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36.Are they even trying to be accessible at this point?

Playground with an "accessible" entrance that's six inches off the ground
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37.Don't try to make accessibility *aesthetic*, either. Just do a normal ramp and normal stairs!

Outdoor staircase with a zigzag ramp on the steps, with no railing
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38.I'm convinced this was designed by the Grinch. It may look festive on the surface, but don't be fooled — it's designed to confuse and endanger!

traffic lights on a bridge combined with Christmas lights that make it hard to tell which are decorations and which are traffic lights
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39.If the person who chose this carpet isn't a secret serial killer, I would be shocked.

long hallway with carpet that looks like it has bloodstains
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40.This is just straight-up evil. I hope the staff checks these before leaving for the day.

A wooden door with a metal bolt and handle on the outside, with text reading, "the shower door in this changing room can be locked from the outside"
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41.This might be the worst possible place to put stairs.

Bathroom with a shower, bathtub, and sink. Steps lead up to the shower, which is enclosed by glass. Text reads: "this shower leads into instant steep curved stairs"
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42.Stairs have no place in bathrooms!

A bathroom with two steps up from the toilet to the sink; the area with the toilet and sink is also elevated
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43.Sure, the Pac-Man design is cute, but not for a bedside table. This is a broken phone waiting to happen.

Modern geometric bedside table next to a bed, with a cut-out design, captioned "maybe not the best design for an end table at a hotel, which you place items on in the dark before bed"
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44.This is perfect for when you want your chair armrests to double as an impaling mechanism!

Modern chair with a sleek, minimalist design featuring a sharp metal poles as armrests
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45.What is the point of this escalator?

People using a stairway and escalator in a subway station corridor. The escalator only goes halfway down
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46.Or this elevator? You still have to use the stairs before and after taking it!

Stairway with metal handrail beside an elevator door in a building corridor; the text reads "the life in this building is on every alternate half-level from where the doors to the houses are"
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47.Need to access this drawer? Too bad!

Glass-top desk with a wooden drawer beneath it that you can't access due to the glass top
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48.Good luck plugging anything in here!

A hand attempts to plug a USB charger into a power outlet integrated into the base of a lamp on a table, but it won't fit due to the design of the lamp
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49.This might be the worst school bathroom I have ever seen.

School restroom with a toilet and sink surrounded by low walls on only three sides, open to the rest of the bathroom
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50.This one also feels specifically designed to torture students.

Public restroom with stalls and a toilet paper dispenser on the wall outside the stalls, without any in the actual stalls
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51.Though I think this one takes the cake.

Toilets at the bottom of a staircase landing with no doors
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52.This just feels needlessly frustrating.

staircase that goes up and then down again to access a door, rather than leading directly there
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53.Finally, I have to end on one more set of terrible stairs because, truly, death trap stars are becoming an epidemic.

Modern zigzag minimalist open staircase with alternating steps, with no railing or any safety features
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