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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.

With in-store (B&M) tracking based on WiFi/Bluetooth signatures and facial recognition ... this is actually in many cases a near future if not already present reality.

The principle difference being that shoppers aren't actually asked for their names.

(Names are determinable through interpolation of those signatures, or through payment information by credit or debit card.)

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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

And then give it away for free of course!

No, only the first couple articles you read are free, the rest are printed in disappearing ink so you get ONLY the ads and pop ups after that until you buy a subscription to the magazine on auto renew.

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Reminds me of the cursed form fields that don’t allow pasting for bank account numbers, which I’ve seen recently at multiple financial sites. What on earth makes them think that typing something manually twice is less error-prone than literally pasting it from a known-good source??

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

#104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I was disappointed there were no "bow"s of a ship. I guess they all fell off.

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

#106

Brilliant website! Previous extensive discussions fwiw: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27635310 (2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344565 (2019)

Thanks! Macroexpanded:

User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27635310 - June 2021 (215 comments)

User Inyerface - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20345826 - July 2019 (1 comment)

User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344565 - July 2019 (255 comments)

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

On Amazon? How? Does Amazon provide an API allowing that?

Automated pricing, based on user interest. https://sell.amazon.com/tools/automate-pricing

This still controls the price for all users though, as far as I’m aware.

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#108

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.

Jeeze do I ever hate that.

Also password or bank account fields that disable pasting. Just awful.

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#109

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 PC Magazine, and other similar mags in the 90's/00's, was literally like this. I used to spend several minutes ripping the thick cardboard ads from every issue before trying to read it. At least web sites don't give me paper cuts.

Yeah, but if you rip out all of the cardboard ads, read through, and then close the magazine the cardboard doesn't crawl back into the magazine for you to pull out again if you pick it back up.

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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"

I’m also going to plug a tangentially similar game I made https://termsandconditions.game I hope you hate it

https://clip.cafe/tucker-dale-vs-evil-2010/ive-never-stood-c...
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