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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)

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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

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.

This not my experience.

I walk into the grocery store to get some fuji apples. I keep asking for fuji apple" but I am affixed with horse blinders and walked to the cell phone isle by a helpful clerk, and a bunch of iPhones are presented.

I ask the clerk for "fruit fuji apple", and I am escorted to a different isle with all kinds of accessories for iPhone.

I walk over to the fruits & vegetables department, stand in the isle with all kinds of apples, and ask for the "fuji apples" again. The clerk promptly walks me back to the iPhone accessory isles, and leaves me there.

I go out of the store, ask a passer-by where the fuji apples are in the store, she tells me exactly. I walk into the store, go to the exact location, and see the fuji apples.

I put it in my basket, walk to the check out. At the checkout the clerk asks me if I want to include a 1 year protection plan, or purchase a charger for my apples. I decline.

I purchase it, go home and wait for the apples to show up at my door.

Two days later the fruit show up. They are williams pears.

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

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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"

The QR code one could be made 1000% more annoying by making it one of those slider puzzles.

I now want a QR code slider puzzle.

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

#87
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"

Real dark mode is great! I can actually see myself profiting from such a design in order to focus in dimly-lit environments.

https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1657755808300519426?s=2...

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

#88
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?

Not the question being asked exactly, but there are quite a few people testing the market for live dynamic in store shelf pricing where they can drop or raise on demand. Its a little odd to think that a jug of milk might be cheaper at 1pm than at 6pm.
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