Bad UI / Good Lessons and Bad UX / Good Lessons: one editorial body of work. Real interfaces, real objects, real fixes. Visual storytelling first; the explanation is there when you want it.
Five real interfaces, five quiet failures. This is design criticism as practice: name what breaks, say exactly how to fix it. No product was harmed; every lesson was kept.
Feedback and consistency break down: the back icon is missing and the phone's own back button doesn't work, so trying to return just refreshes the same page.
Add a back button. The user stays in control, able to undo or return from an action.
The whole concept is ordering nearby, yet “Locate me” does nothing. A consistency and feedback failure on the one action the product exists for.
Make “Locate me” actually work, and swap it with search: search is the primary action and should hold the primary color.
Consistency and hierarchy issues across the site, and the navigation hides an untranslated “BG” (Bulgarian) item styled as a primary button. Black text sits uncomfortably directly on the imagery.
Replace the language label with an Earth icon beside “EN”, and give the text a containing box so it reads comfortably over the image.
Clarity and user control: the header leans on a beach illustration that has nothing to do with food, and browsing deals or ordering is gated behind a mandatory log-in / sign-up.
Make the header food-relevant (a burger offer beats a beach). Let people browse before asking them to create an account.
Inconsistent elements and lost user control: buttons don't respond, the logo dominates where reading should start, and a footer navigation bar drifts onto the splash screen.
Move the logo smaller to the top-left (users read left to right), let the title outrank the subtitle, and remove the footer bar from the splash while unifying the imagery.
No clear way to return to the previous step, so navigation control quietly disappears.
Multiple call-to-actions with vague or identical labels confuse users and weaken focus.
Text, images and buttons misaligned: the interface reads cluttered and unbalanced.
Everything competes at once: headlines look like body text, buttons melt into the background.
Untranslated items and absent information damage trust, especially where money is involved.
Three objects and three interfaces. UX doesn't start at the screen. It starts anywhere a person meets a design and has to fight it. Same method every time: name the fight, design it away.
The classic open-top design has no lid or windshield: the smallest breeze from a fan, window or AC sends ash flying over everything nearby. Most plastic ashtrays solved this; glass never did.
A transparent heat-resistant lid with access flaps or a turning top, and a double-layer body where ash falls into a closed lower chamber: retro look, contemporary behavior.
The rings loosen and fall off the rod, misalignment makes the curtain hard to open and close, and since it's used daily it needs constant fixing and re-attaching.
Sew the rings in. Sewn rings survive daily use: nothing to fall off, nothing to re-attach.
It switches on the moment it's plugged in, flashing directly into your eyes, and offers no adjustment of the projection: the circle is fixed, never wide or narrow.
A switch that stops the auto-on, and a swappable filter ring around the light for wide or narrow projection.
The “Exploring Dropshipping Products” button is inaccessible unless you first add a payment method, so the exploration is walled before it starts.
Let the explore button lead straight to the product pages. Ask for payment details when someone commits to the program, not when they're still deciding.
Pairing is only half the setup: the companion software usually lives on a Chinese-language or discontinued website, so even the discontinued app is a struggle to download.
Support at least an international language, and keep the software alive for as long as the product is on shelves. A slight investment here is a huge difference in sales.
Two “Contact us” CTAs compete on one screen, and the gradient button colors fail the contrast they need to be readable.
Keep one CTA, the top one, and recolor the buttons away from the gradient to values that actually hold the contrast.