Bad Design = Failed (or Missing) Design Process
A note written on May 20th: Bad design = that the design process has failed [or is missing]; the thing in question [the designed entity] doesn’t work as good as one would expect … Not that it’s ugly. But some design is all aesthetics, and [then] bad design = ugly.
(To most people, I guess, design is about things that look designed, or which were designed by a well-known designer, in which case it’s just an extension of the Brand.)