User In Yer Face, a worst-practise UI experiment (2018) • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by codetiger » Thu, May 18, 2023, 12:35 PM UTC

alex-moon wrote: post #5

4pkjai wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Most of the images in light, bow and circle has to be selected. I passed the test in bow with all images selected.

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

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Post by avereveard » Thu, May 18, 2023, 12:38 PM UTC

Loved the placeholder that you have to delete, that's a classic

The form field didn't reset to default values when submitting something that doesn't pass validation, that's probably a little too convenient.

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

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Post by trizoza » Thu, May 18, 2023, 12:40 PM UTC

Love this! There used to be a similar site on HN some time ago, something in a sense "How I see internet these days" and endless pop-ups kept on annoying you. Anyone remembers that?

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

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Post by user3939382 » Thu, May 18, 2023, 12:46 PM UTC

trizoza wrote: post #23

Love this! There used to be a similar site on HN some time ago, something in a sense "How I see internet these days" and endless pop-ups kept on annoying you. Anyone remembers that?

Yep exactly

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

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Post by a13o » Thu, May 18, 2023, 12:47 PM UTC

This is what my nightmares are like. I have to do something simple like fill out a form or unlock a door, and everything that can possibly go wrong goes wrong

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

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Post by solarkraft » Thu, May 18, 2023, 12:51 PM UTC

My favorite was the "select all" check box.

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

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Post by gamerDude » Thu, May 18, 2023, 12:55 PM UTC

codetiger wrote: post #21

alex-moon wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What did you put for light and circle ones?

Most of the images in light, bow and circle has to be selected. I passed the test in bow with all images selected.

They all have bows.

Bow ties. Hunting bows. And people bowing.

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

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Post by mattkevan » Thu, May 18, 2023, 12:56 PM UTC

Often thought about designing a print magazine with the same values as a web publication:

* Agree to all sorts of scary things to take off the plastic wrapping

* Peel off multiple big stickers on every page

* Big heavy adverts that overlap the content and weigh pages down

* Built-in Tile/Airtag to track location

* Chumboxes for other magazines at the bottom of each article

...etc

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

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Post by TeMPOraL » Thu, May 18, 2023, 12:56 PM UTC

trizoza wrote: post #23

Love this! There used to be a similar site on HN some time ago, something in a sense "How I see internet these days" and endless pop-ups kept on annoying you. Anyone remembers that?

Oh, I know that one. It comes built-in as an easter egg in uBlock Origin - you can open it by clicking the big "Power" button that shows after you click the uBO logo in the browser toolbar.

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

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Post by SimonPStevens » Thu, May 18, 2023, 12:56 PM UTC

isp wrote: post #10

Related - "Engineers are competing who creates the worst UI on Reddit" - https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1657755496852475906 I particularly like: - https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1657755496852475906 - "Enter your phone number" - https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1657755532394889219 - "Volume control" - https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1657755789313069057 - "Checkbox with a 50% success rate"

Oh the irony of examples of bad UI being posted on twitter where I just get half a UI loading with spinners and can't see anything.