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The designs for the ‘worst volume control interface in the world’ are a hilariously geeky delight

David Harris. Updated April 28th, 2023

There are countless examples of bad design in the modern world, and we’ve featured plenty of them on these pages. Most of them, however, are the results of incompetence and weren’t created with the deliberate intention of them being infuriatingly awful.

The following examples of designs for a volume control, however, are different. They were made as part of a competition to be as appallingly useless and over-engineered as possible.

The results are hilariously creative and utterly unfit-for-purpose. We can only imagine that the designers involved in the competition have now been given jobs by Elon Musk to aid him in his continuing ‘improvements’ to Twitter.

Here are the competition results, as shared by Twitter user OxDesigner…

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