Bad Design

For this project i chose the on and off button on my mobile phone. When i first got the phone i thought that the green button shown below on the phone was the on button. i got this idea because of the misleading design cues it was giving me. first of all it is green, a colour that represents "go" and "do" and second of all it looks very similar to the actual on button which is the red one across from it on the key pad. this misleading button confuses the user as they are unable to turn on the phone by the button they think is the on button.

To improve this design so it is less confusing to the viewer i decided i would change the appearence of the green button so it didnt look like a generic power button. i decided i would remove the right semicircle and dot from the green button so all that is shown is the green phone sign.