I propose a new design term: "total design failure".
Definition: when every single person in the chain responsible for shipping a product looks at objectively horrendous design decisions and goes: yup, this looks good to me, release this. Designers, developers, product managers, testers, quality assurance... *everyone*.
I nominate Peugeot as the first example in this category.
Every interaction is accompanied by animation that takes several seconds to complete. Since these animations are completely unnecessary the few hardware buttons switch between screens instantaneously.
The cherry on top is that it takes over a second—with a loading animation!—to change temperature by one degree.
And no one in the whole decision chain looked at it and said, "this is unacceptable".
