Misused design patterns

Question

Are there, in the canonical Gang of Four list, any design patterns that you often find misused, misunderstood or overused (other than the highly debated Singleton)? In other wor

Answer 1

I would also say the factory pattern. Similar experience as Eoin. In my case the project had tons of factories because some people thought you might have used object A for a local implementation and object B for remote one and it was abstracted via a factory (which is a sensible thing to do).

But the "remote" implementation has never been needed or implemented or even foreseen in the future... and also, less-skilled engineers started adopting the pattern for lots of other things just as a cookie cutter...