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

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

#61
The site actually crashed Chrome as soon as I uploaded an file, to the point where even mouse clicks on the address bar or other tabs wouldn't work. I didn't think that was supposed to be possible. I guess we can dig into the code and figure out how to crash peoples' browsers with a website?

@ChromeDevTeam Your bug reporting process is too complicated so I'm just leaving this here on the internet for you to find

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

#62
post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Recreate the Amazon experience in a store by asking for their name so you can show them different prices and offers, then write down everything the shopper looks at, adds to their basket, and after they've paid sell their information to advertisers so they will see adverts for the lawnmower they've just bought for the next few days.

Are you saying Amazon modifies prices for items based on which user is logged in?

Some sellers do this, yes.

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

#63
post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Recreate the Amazon experience in a store by asking for their name so you can show them different prices and offers, then write down everything the shopper looks at, adds to their basket, and after they've paid sell their information to advertisers so they will see adverts for the lawnmower they've just bought for the next few days.

Are you saying Amazon modifies prices for items based on which user is logged in?

yes this is a known thing.

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

#64
post #40

There is whole subreddit dedicated to these kind of UIs: https://www.reddit.com/r/badUIbattles/top/?t=all Enjoy.

I'm pretty partial to that draw your countries flag [1]

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/badUIbattles/comments/g4aytv/tired_...

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

#65

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

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

A lot of magazines have a rip-out subscription card like that.

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

#66
post #65

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

> Big heavy adverts that overlap the content and weigh pages down A lot of magazines have a rip-out subscription card like that.

the fall-out cards are even worse

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

#70
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.

I've got automatic redirects to nitter set up on all my devices.
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