Broken: This Is Broken
The website This is Broken seems to suffer from one flaw: it, too, is broken.
The site is dedicated to those things that “just don’t seem right” and that are poorly designed. The problem is that most of the submissions on the website are not terribly broken; rather, the submissions are broken because somebody is nit-picky.
Take, for example, the post regarding a Belkin optical mouse. The site claims the packaging is “broken” because it contains a lead-contents warning label. This isn’t broken. This is mandated by statute, the same as anything else that contains lead.
Or, another example, where the buttons in an elevator were listed in a different order. This is not broken; it is an interface design decision.
The only thing broken at This is Broken is thisisbroken.com.
