Week 12: The Worst Design Awards

The same question the course opened with, asked one more time now that you actually know how to answer it

24 May 2027

The course opened by asking what makes something genuinely bad, and it closes by asking the same question with twelve weeks of evidence behind it — observation, psychology, manipulation, creation, testing, ethics, redesign. There is deliberately no single answer by the end; there’s a considerably better set of tools for arguing about one.

Outline#

• the categories, and what each one is actually measuring
• returning to week 1’s question through six perspectives: user, behavioural, organisational, system, evidence and redesign
• The Worst Design Awards, this week’s session
• the Redemption Project is due today