After a while these start boiling down to "a difficult minigame where your score is also the volume setting".
Redditors design worst volume sliders possible
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#12Running to the north to volume this one up:
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#13the /r/programmerhumor sub has a really great userbase. I loved watching this one unfold. My personal fav: https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/BetterDaringDarklingbeetle
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#14Someone please change the link to the appropriate reddit page: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/6evbfd/who...
That's just the original submission that started it all. There are many more that were covered in the article: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/search?q=volume&res...
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#15This isn't the first time. A few months ago the trend was phone number form fields: https://imgur.com/a/4f3XB
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#16In research environments we often have to use software with UIs designed by, and subsequently abandoned by engineers. Typically some expensive piece of highly complex equipment that only runs on some older version of Windows that every PhD student is expected to use. They're often buggy, resulting in Skinner pigeon troubleshooting workflows to get anything done.
First guilty party to mind is FLIR. Their software is truely awful and since they monopolise the market by buying out everyone else no two cameras behave the same.
Various CAD packages too are a design mess. PTC could learn an lot from Adobe about UI design. Heck, Blender's UI is miles ahead of anything from the big CAD companies for pure productivity, nevermind install size.
Fortunately my primary overpriced USB dongled bit of research equipment is pretty easy to hack. All the data types under the hood are simple text files that I've got python scripts for handling.
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#17If you like this, search for "worst phone number input", there's more in that genre :)
For the lazy: https://imgur.com/a/4f3XB
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#18These are hilarious. I use audio software a lot, and it is amazing how something which seems quite simple in concept, such as a circular volume button, can be so differently implemented via UX. Every time I see a knob style button on any of my audio plugins UI, I have to think: * Will the point at which I touch/click on the knob set the knob value to that position, or will it simply be the starting anchor at which I…
Volume is a percentage, and a very analog control. The idea that you would have to have a round knob to twist on a computer screen is ridiculous, almost like some imaginary need for a specific shutter button to press to take a photo on a phone (just touch the screen!).
It's a one-dimensional value, make it a one-dimensional control. Slider. Done.
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#19the /r/programmerhumor sub has a really great userbase. I loved watching this one unfold. My personal fav: https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/BetterDaringDarklingbeetle
That's literally the only one I don't get. What is this thing that follows the mouse cursor, and what does the whole idea represent?
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#20If you like this, search for "worst phone number input", there's more in that genre :)
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