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User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by nneonneo »

dr_orpheus wrote: post #46
c0nsumer wrote: post #45

I think I found a bug. When I put 4-Aug-1978 for birthdate, and 41 for age, it said age and birthday don't match. It validated successfully on 42. Although maybe that's part of the game?

Not sure, I didn't want to do math so I just put in todays date and an age of 0. Worked!

Side effect: you've now created a child account and will have to wait 18 years for all of the website features to unlock! And don't dare make a second account, or you will get banned for sockpuppeting!

At least one popular mobile game has a policy that the account's birthdate will not be changed under basically any circumstance, and child accounts are severely restricted compared to adult accounts. Parents wanting to take over their kid's account (happens more often than you'd think) end up seriously frustrated with the restrictions.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by sneak »

ceejayoz wrote: post #48
canada_dry wrote: post #40

For Canadians... I love this one: ENTER YOUR POSTAL CODE: A1A1A1 Lazy %@$# front-end devs that can't reformat the input!

My email address has a dash in the domain and it's remarkable how many sites (and big ones, too!) reject it as an invalid domain. Discover.com, for example, rejected it when I did a card application, but disabling JavaScript let it go through on the server-side validation. Bloody weird.

Lots of websites reject email addresses at entirely valid domain names as invalid, too, such as any at some of the new TLDs like .email.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by infogulch »

Love all the little details. Some favorites:

* Clicking 'expand' button on any dialog (T&C) expanded the dialog to cover the page but doesn't expand the contents to match

* Tiny flag icons to select country

* The age slider that went from 0-180 years and didn't update as you slid it (fun on a trackpad)

* number input for house number that required clicking on the arrows to change it one at a time

* utterly ambiguous human verification instructions

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by kbelder »

nneonneo wrote: post #51
dr_orpheus wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure, I didn't want to do math so I just put in todays date and an age of 0. Worked!

Side effect: you've now created a child account and will have to wait 18 years for all of the website features to unlock! And don't dare make a second account, or you will get banned for sockpuppeting! At least one popular mobile game has a policy that the account's birthdate will not be changed under basically any circumstance, and child accounts are severely restricted compared to adult accounts. Parents wanting to…

Yeah, my daughter has been eighteen since she was five.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by whatatita »

sneak wrote: post #52
ceejayoz wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My email address has a dash in the domain and it's remarkable how many sites (and big ones, too!) reject it as an invalid domain. Discover.com, for example, rejected it when I did a card application, but disabling JavaScript let it go through on the server-side validation. Bloody weird.

Lots of websites reject email addresses at entirely valid domain names as invalid, too, such as any at some of the new TLDs like .email.

So many websites provide some TLD validation but don't keep it up to date. Using .xyz is an exercise in frustration.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by doomroot »

systemvoltage wrote: post #24
java-man wrote: post #4

I feel like I've been in this experiment for the last 20 years...

I have a personal punishment policy for any obvious violation of UX/UI - they will permanently and irrevokably lose me as a customer. Even if they fix it, I won't budge. Leadership needs to use their own products and if they allow this to go to production, I wonder what they're doing behind the scenes. Small battles that I pick, but by god it is so satisfying.

So a small shop that can only pay 1 fresh bootcamp dev who is trying their hardest doesn’t get your business because they can’t keep up with several hundred Frontend google devs. Seems a little silly and absolutist.
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