User In Yer Face, a worst-practise UI experiment (2018)

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Post by onion2k » Thu, May 18, 2023, 8:13 AM UTC

User In Yer Face, a worst-practise UI experiment (2018)
userinyerface.com

Re: User In Yer Face, a worst-practise UI experiment (2018)

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Post by alex-moon » Thu, May 18, 2023, 11:15 AM UTC

I couldn't get past the captchas. I wonder if it's possible to do so...?

Re: User In Yer Face, a worst-practise UI experiment (2018)

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Post by 4pkjai » Thu, May 18, 2023, 11:17 AM UTC

Very clever, I enjoyed getting past all that. I have seen the "needs-to-be-deleted" placeholder text in the wild before. It's very silly.

Re: User In Yer Face, a worst-practise UI experiment (2018)

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Post by 4pkjai » Thu, May 18, 2023, 11:18 AM UTC

alex-moon wrote: post #2

I couldn't get past the captchas. I wonder if it's possible to do so...?

I failed it a few times, but passed when I got the glasses option and selected every box.

Re: User In Yer Face, a worst-practise UI experiment (2018)

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Post by alex-moon » Thu, May 18, 2023, 11:21 AM UTC

4pkjai wrote: post #4

alex-moon wrote: post #2

I couldn't get past the captchas. I wonder if it's possible to do so...?

I failed it a few times, but passed when I got the glasses option and selected every box.

What did you put for light and circle ones?

Re: User In Yer Face, a worst-practise UI experiment (2018)

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Post by thih9 » Thu, May 18, 2023, 11:27 AM UTC

(mild spoiler alert) It took me 00:06:20 to complete and I enjoyed it a lot. I especially liked the ambiguous form state; I was never sure which part of the form is active or has been selected. I appreciate that it didn't feel needlessly unfair; e.g. when I accidentally clicked a "select all" button that undid all my work, there was also an "unselect all" button within reach.

Loosely related: "The worst volume control UI in the world", https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world... .

Re: User In Yer Face, a worst-practise UI experiment (2018)

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Post by wizofaus » Thu, May 18, 2023, 11:33 AM UTC

The ultimate Turing test? I'm willing to bet not even ChatGPT-11 will have the sheer boneheaded level of determination only a human could ever achieve...