Bad Design

The NOKIA 6500 Slide phone was chosen for the bad design task due to an improperly labeled and badly position power button. To the inexperienced (and experienced) mobile phone user, the power button appears to not exist as it lacks the design features to draw attention. Many users would expect to see a power button along the top ridge of the phone, however the only button to be found there removes the rear cover. The actual power button, in fact is combined with the end call button, however no design effort was made to show this. 

My proposed change involves simply placing a separate power button on the top of the phone. The issue of it not standing out amongst other buttons would be solved by printing a power logo on the button in red to grab the users attention.