Op-Ed: Is there such a thing as bad design?
“There can’t be heart stopping, breath stealing design without design that has you considering what was fundamentally wrong with the person that created it.”
By Ruby Shomion
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” is probably what someone said to cover up a mistake they were called out for on their abominable creation. (And yes, I am an empath.)
If there is good design, there has to be bad design. Remember when your 6th grade counselor told you, “there can’t be a rainbow without rain”? Well, there can’t be heart stopping, breath stealing design without design that has you considering what was fundamentally wrong with the person that created it.
And not fundamentally wrong in the chic tortured artist kind of way, but the hair-raising goose-bumped purple-lipped kind of way. Bad design is not inherently bad, as an Instagram dietitian tells you Doritos are not “bad” for you, they just contain less nutrients than broccoli for your body. Bad design contains less nutrients for the soul the eyes the psyche, but in the way you lick your fingers after eating Doritos, you still gaze at bad design. Bad design is not wrong, on a moral level, but it can be bad.
And that’s ok.
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