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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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plebianRube wrote: post #124
infogulch wrote: post #54

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…

I was dying with laughter. Love the helpful chat box which takes forever to drop, the helpful popup telling you to hurry up with an option to lock it where you'd expect an ok, and the expand button where you would expect the close button. But captchas were truly the icing on the cake. The only thing missing would have been a 'subscribe to our newsletter' feature 2 seconds after each page loads.

I almost died laughing, too

When I slid the marker to about half the maximum length and the slider showed me 95 years old I cracked

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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grawprog wrote: post #32

Well...I did it...somehow...I did... 00:06:57 That seems too fast...apparently i've experienced these things far too much. It actually was filling me with rage. I came close to saying fuck it...I really did... Well done to the creators...you managed to, with 100% accuracy, capture every single thing that's horrible about signing up to websites. That bow thing though...gotta admit, was worth it just for the chuckle I…

00:33:39—Jury is out on whether that’s a good or bad thing...

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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sciurus wrote: post #135
danudey wrote: post #98

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I got 6 minutes and 7 seconds, half of which I think I spent trying to figure out the capcha. Also, if you got to the capcha and got it on the first try, go back and fail it a few times. They have some really clever ones.

I bailed on the captcha after 3 tries. It was infuriating, which is my experience with real captchas more often than I'd like to admit.

I sometimes save the good ones to disk just to laugh a bit more later.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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mleonhard wrote: post #127
Pxtl wrote: post #88

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iirc the Android 4 date picker had a microscopic hit-area on the date where, if clicked, would display a year-key-in dialog. I don't know if newer ones have this. I hate date pickers so much that I use the Google Assistant in all its hellish, buggy glory to create appointments for my calendar on my phone.

Google's UX is slightly broken and nobody in the organization cares to fix it. Their date & time pickers are good examples of this. Flutter provides separate Material date picker [0] and time picker widgets [1], but no date-time picker widget that displays the selected DateTime and lets the user change the date or time. When I asked Flutter team for one 2 years ago, their UX person refused to add it, saying that beca…

Everything works with week numbers in my job. It makes sense because everyone is on a 4 week schedule.
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