The secret of a great public space lies in its design. For people to visit and make use of these places many times over, they have to be functional, accessible, easy to use, match the needs of the community, and evolve with it as it changes. After all, most things are created to be utilized, not just to be seen.

However, not all designs can check these boxes. “What happens when they fail to do so?” you may ask. Well, they are shared online for netizens to judge. We at Bored Panda have collected some of the worst cases in the list below. We hope that these photos serve as a public service announcement that we deserve better!

#1 The Students In My Course Complained About Not Having Enough Privacy, And University Decided To Install Glass Doors To Solve The Issue

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#2 This Is The View Of The Stage At The Concert I’m At

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#3 World’s Most Practical Design

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#4 My View At A Movie Theater Last Night

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#5 This Weird Door At The Top Of The Stairs In A Hotel

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#6 Oddly Placed Phone In A Waiting Room

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#7 The Fitting Room Door At The Thrift Store

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#8 This Pattern On The Hospital’s Floor

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#9 These Stairs

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#10 My School’s Locker Can’t Even Fit My Backpack Because Of Those Shelves

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#11 My School Installed A New Beamer. I Nominate Them For “The Best Engineering 2017”

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#12 Perfectly Thought Classroom

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#13 They Put Circus Mirrors In My Local Gym

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#14 My Friend Saw This At The Cinema

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#15 Wheelchair Accessible Washrooms Are Located On The Second Floor. Just A Quick Trip Up The Escalator

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#16 They Replaced Half The Mirrors In My Local Shopping Mall’s Bathroom With Advertising Boards

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#17 Public Restroom Stalls With… Viewing Windows? Why?

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#18 This Escalator Requires That You Still Use The Stairs

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#19 The Staircase At My Hotel Room Just Drops Off

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#20 There Are Three Steps Down At The Entrance To This Lobby

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#21 Who Wouldn’t Want A Ceiling That Looks Like It’s Covered With Hair?

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#22 The Lights In This Hallway

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#23 Kids’ Area In A Hospital’s Lobby. N Is For… Nugget?

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#24 At Least It’s Padded

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#25 My Sister And I Went To Use The Bathroom At My Other Sister’s Softball Game And We Saw This

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#26 I Found This Gem At A Hotel In Wisconsin

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#27 Elevator At The Department Of Architecture

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#28 These Chairs At A Bowling Hall I Went To

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#29 These Cinema Cup Holders Have No Bottoms, So They Only Fit Super-Large Drink Cups

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#30 This Skinny Door At Taco Bell

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#31 My Classroom Has These Floor Outlets. It’s Basically The Toe Stubber 5000

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#32 The Wall Art In This Bathroom Is… Suboptimal

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#33 Which Floor Am I On?

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#34 This Was The “Sink” In A Restaurant

Nope, this isn’t a minimalist, avant-garde design. The water just spills off the edges onto the floor, which is why the mop is right there. There isn’t even a drain pipe below this counter.

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#35 Thank You America For Your Awesome Bathroom Privacy

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#36 My New Classroom’s Light Switch Is Positioned Here For Some Weird Reason, Not Very Vertically-Challenged-People-Friendly

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#37 Maybe With My Head Between My Knees I Would Fit

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#38 “Mind The Step”

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#39 Cyber-Greco-Roman Architecture

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#40 Leg Space In A Cricket Stadium

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#41 Meanwhile In Supermarket

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#42 The Only Unlocked Bathroom At My School

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#43 Stairs In The Basement Of A Princeton University Dorm

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#44 This Pull Door At Panda Express

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#45 My View At The Kings Theater, Portsmouth, UK

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#46 Almost Every Woman’s Restroom In Older Buildings Is Like This. Designers Failed To Realize Women Grow Taller Than 5’5

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#47 Arbitrary Stairs In The Middle Of A Hallway

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#48 This Hallway Is Lined With 12 Framed Copies Of The Same Picture

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#49 This Aquatic-Themed Hospital Couch Weirdly Has An Underwater Giraffe On It

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#50 New Acoustic Foam Just Put Up On My School’s Walls

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#51 Installed Those Elevator Buttons, Boss

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#52 “Every You Give Zoom More Idea”. What Does That Even Mean?

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#53 Gambling In Istanbul Subway To Your Destination

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#54 My Classroom’s Random Column

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#55 How Close This Toilet Is To The Stall Door. Had A Good Laugh At How My Feet Poke Out Underneath

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#56 Nice Idea Badly Executed

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#57 One-Way Window Tint At School, So We Can’t See People, But They Can See Us

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#58 My Doctor’s Office Has Three Identical Paintings In The Lobby

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#59 Lets Hope There Won’t Be Fire

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#60 This Door In My School

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#61 Elevator Button With No Elevator

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#62 Campaign In Munich For The Euro Championship

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#63 Shoutout To This Bar In Rural Alberta, Where The Women’s Bathroom Is Right Beside The Piano Stage, No Door. If You Go To The Toilet, Everyone In The Bar Is Going To Hear It

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#64 These Stairs Lead To Nowhere

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#65 A Spot For Kids To Be Measured, On A Sloped Ramp. Lotteria Restaurant In Korea

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#66 The New Cinema In My City Has Stairs Exactly In The Middle Of The Screen, Forcing Everyone To Sit To The Side

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#67 Placing The Emergency Door Button Next To The Children’s Play Area

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#68 Stunningly Bad Sink At My New Office. Water Runs Off Your Hands, Collects On The Ledge, And Spills Onto The Floor

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#69 The “Emergency” Pull Rope In My Local Hospital’s Disabled Toilet

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#70 This “Ergonomic” Catastrophy. Workplace Outside Of The Library In The New University Building In Frankfurt. 33 Cm Bench-Table Distance, Not Movable, Hard Metal Edges, Painful To Use

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#71 When This Door Opens, It Hits The Pillar. I’m Guessing The Poster Was Put There To Cover It, But The Door’s Gone Through It Too

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#72 High School Bathrooms Are Already Wild Enough

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#73 The Person Who Decided To Put A Glass Door Opposite The Toilet In The Restaurant, I Have A Couple Of Questions For You

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#74 Spotted At An Airport In Angola. I Guess This Guy Just Checked All The Boxes So They Used Him 5 Times

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#75 Steps That Are Too Long For One Step, But Too Short For Two

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#76 The Text Doesn’t Line Up With The Lights

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#77 Demons At My Local Dentist

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#78 Sliding Door Prevents Use Of Outlets

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#79 The Elevator At My Workplace Is Rather Confusing

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#80 This Door

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#81 This Seat On The Bus

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#82 You Had One Job (Singapore Version)

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#83 Safety First

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#84 This Odd Handrail Blocking Half Of The Staircase At The San Jose Convention Center

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#85 My School Added A New Vending Machine To The Science Building’s Lobby. Better For Them To Eat Junk Food Than Have Free Water

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#86 These Stairs Are At 45° Angle, So You’re Guaranteed To Trip On Them. The Handrail Also Has Razor-Sharp Plates Attached To The Wall

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#87 This Screen At My School

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#88 Odd Doorway Left After The Office Reconfigurations. The Glass Wall Was Removed, And Custom Ceiling Not Restored

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#89 This Disabled Parking Spot Has No Ramp

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#90 This Airport Bathroom’s Arrow Is Almost Invisible, So People Walk Into Exiting People

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#91 Bad Door Placement

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#92 What Happened Here?

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#93 This Floor Looks Like It Has Grass Cutting All Over It

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#94 The Way These Canvases Were Hung Up In The Bathroom Of My Local Sushi Restaurant

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#95 “Please Go Sideways”

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#96 You Can’t Open That Door

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#97 Can’t Open The Window In The Gym Changing Room. There Is Even A Lower Setting Where They Could Have Screwed It In

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#98 I Hated Every Second Of This Bus Trip

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#99 Sat Down At Our Gate At The Airport Next To An Outlet. It Turns Out It’s A Sticker

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#100 You Had One Job

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#101 This Lobby’s “Modern” Clear Footstool Contains An Old Rustic Footstool

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#102 When Booking My Ticket, I Was Told I Might Have A Slightly Restricted View. “Slightly” Is A Bit Of An Understatement

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#103 This Railing At A Hotel I Stayed At

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#104 This Huge Pillar In The Middle Of The Changing Room

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#105 The First Step Of These Stairs Is Not A Step

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#106 This New “American” Restaurant Opened In Town And I Can’t Enjoy My Food Because Of This

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#107 Spotted In Stockholm

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#108 Who Designs These Mannequins? I Mean, Seriously

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#109 These Made Me Feel So Off-Balance. I Had To Use The Handrail Every Time I Used Them

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#110 Saw This In The Hospital Where I Work At

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#111 Waiting For My Pap Smear

Yes, that is a normal window located by the entrance of the hospital, low enough for average-height people to see in. I had already undressed and sat down when I realized the blinds were open. I was too nervous to get back up. I watched people go by, and once the doctor came in, I asked if she could close them.

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#112 When You Look Up At The Ceiling In Your Hospital Bed And See This

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#113 This Narrow Passageway Leads To The Only Elevator On The Platform

Once you’ve given room for those exiting the elevator, you have to sprint with your luggage in tow to press the button before the elevator goes up again. Needless to say, I failed this a couple of times.

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#114 They Replaced The Tiles In My Dorm’s Hallway. It’s Supposed To Be 3 Solid Blue Lines

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