It is with great pleasure that I present to you the second feature in the Bad Design series: Tuloy Pnoy.

Don’t get me wrong: this isn’t about Noynoy^[1]—this tirade is about whoever^[2] designed this website. Designers are hired for their creativity and thoughtfulness—the person who designed this website seems to have neither.

I’d write more, but I have an exam for which to study. So I’ll leave a list:

1. The marquee on the top-right of the page. That is so 1995.
2. The home button on the menu is the exact image taken from barackobama.com
3. I was under the impression that Noynoy’s campaign color was yellow. So why there more blue than yellow? Oh, wait. I forgot. It was ripped off from barackobama.com.
4. See the form on the right side of the page? The country default is “United States”. It should be “Philippines”.
5. What is that in the footer? A call center company? Why? Why not Powered by HOPE? If you were to copy from Obama’s site, it should be that.
6. Did I mention the logo?
7. This makes Noynoy look bad.

I pity the fool who designed tuloypnoy.com. Ugly websites, I can tolerate. Shameless copycats, I cannot. You are an embarrassment to the filipino design community and I encourage you to give up this job (which is obviously too big for you), and take knitting instead.

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[1] For those of you who are unfamiliar with Philippine politics, Noynoy is the son of Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino and Corazon “Cory” Aquino. The former is a national hero (he was assassinated) and the man on the 500 peso bill, while the latter succeeded Marcos after he was ousted by the monumental People Power rally on highway 54, known today as EDSA.

[2] Apparently, this is a “fan”-made website, and isn’t the official campaign website of Noynoy. The fact remains, however, that whoever designed this committed a very dishonorable act. The original text of my error is as follows:

“While I have nothing against Noynoy, I must say that he must reconsider his choice of publicity personnel. Designers are hired for their creativity and thoughtfulness. The person who designed this website has neither.”

Thanks to mlq3 for the correction.

But that’s not the point of this post. If you would scroll down, you might see a little guy named Carl being a bit of a troll, declaring it a “complete toss..!” and “all that glitters isnt gold”^[1] . Normally I wouldn’t really care about trolls, but I noticed the guy had a name-url, so I clicked it. As soon as the page loaded, I was flooded with a mix of emotions and reactions and it took me quite a while to parse it. Should I scoff? Should I laugh? Should I wince? Seriously? You give unconstructive criticism on a design issue and you give me this? Canidesign.com? Can/i/design?

No sir, you cannot.

While not as atrocious as other websites out there, the sheer gall of this guy’s reactions coupled with the pretentiousness of this site causes me to react. That is, to start an entire category based on bad design^[2]. And this guy has the distinction of being the first awardee. Kudos, mate.

»canidesign.com

[1] Complete logic fail. “all that glitters isnt gold”? When you want to use an idiom, make sure you use it right. When you try to modify an idiom for your purposes, make sure you don’t shoot yourself in the foot.

[2] From this point forward, I will post objectionably designed websites, objects and printed material because I am mean. Non-pretentious subjects gain immunity. (i.e. people who don’t go about marketing themselves as some sort of design competition resource, and at the same time demonstrating that they will unequivocally lose whatever design competitions they organize.)