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User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
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Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
#172That's the most fun I've had in days. Thank you!
Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
#173We should make a website that does everything in the opposite way: 1) Require adblock 2) Banner saying the website doesn't use cookies, which goes away if you mouseover 3) If you're on mobile, show a banner saying the website doesn't have an app 4) A signup form, but when you try to focus it, it turns into a banner saying "jk this website doesn't have signup"
And a mandatory "Please disable javascript"
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Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
Really? I couldn't seem to prove that I was human. I thought it just threw you into an infinite "prove you're human" loop at the end.
There is a vertical scroll bar. You need to check them all because they're all checks.
In case anybody missed the humor in this, like I did the first time round: all of the pictures denote some kind of "check". Like with the bows.
There are pictures of people checking things – a watch, and something else I can't quite see.
There are games of chess in a state of check.
There are monetary checks.
There are check boxes.
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
I rather miss those early days. Web 1.0 is looked down on for its visual clutter (and definitely the hatred of image backgrounds and animated text was well-deserved), but Web 2.0 has just as much if not more clutter, and of a darker nature.
The current web isn't anything like Web 2.0. Web 2.0 never happened, except in tiny isolated pockets. It's a terrible name anyway - it indicates a natural progression (which never happened), a clear improvement (which didn't materialize quickly enough for anyone important to care) and incompatibility with the past (which was never necessary since semantic components can be embedded in a normal web site). We're curren…
It boggles the mind to think of how much resources (time and money) have been spent so that control freak corporations can control my user experience from the server when I have a rich client under my control.
The whole web is backwards these days; users should’ve able to download themes for different kinds of content and the content itself should be barely human readable self-describing text with no layout instructions, only hints (like title and h1 and p)- leave it to the client to choose how to display.
Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
The current web isn't anything like Web 2.0. Web 2.0 never happened, except in tiny isolated pockets. It's a terrible name anyway - it indicates a natural progression (which never happened), a clear improvement (which didn't materialize quickly enough for anyone important to care) and incompatibility with the past (which was never necessary since semantic components can be embedded in a normal web site). We're curren…
It boggles the mind to think of how much resources (time and money) have been spent so that control freak corporations can control my user experience from the server when I have a rich client under my control. The whole web is backwards these days; users should’ve able to download themes for different kinds of content and the content itself should be barely human readable self-describing text with no layout instructi…
I think it's extremely important that the text going around on the web be human readable and notepad editable. It really lowers the bar to start creating content rather than just consuming it.
Obviously it's a minority that do, but the potential itself has value I think.
Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
#177Looks like some my states's webpages.
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#178“Your password can have at least one cyrillic character” WTF XD
Some time ago I tried registering an account on a site where the password policy was that you couldn't use special characters and that it would discard any characters you entered after the first 15 ones. But you know what the worst part was? They never bothered informing you about these limitations. The site just returned a generic error. Not supporting special characters I can kinda understand but silently discardin…
The discover card (As in discover credit cards) had a limitation of 15 characters for the password back when I first signed up for one out of college. Even back then I was using long complicated passwords. The "clever" thing is that they never told you about this. They just truncated it at 15 characters on both the sign up page and the login page. I didn't realize this for several years because their password entry field was so small.
Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
#179My favorite part was how s-l-o-w-l-y the "How Can We Help?" dialog sank when I clicked Send to Bottom. I also appreciate how it would reappear and block the interface. But kind of disappointed it didn't instantly reappear if you moused over it. Or that it didn't randomly bounce for attention in my peripheral vision. And to the person out there thinking of making a front end framework based on this, just don't do it m…
I had this happen today, in the wild, after visiting a HN linked Wired article. A few seconds on the page, a banner appears, blocking about a quarter of the page. Close it, start reading the article. 30 seconds later, the original banner reappears, again blocking a quarter of the page, and I close it again. I continue reading, think I hit a "click to read more button", another click. Keep reading, maybe two thirds of…
> Who the fuck is implementing these things
A developer being told by management that Optimizely showed this design gives a 20% boost in conversion.
I don't trust this tooling after creating 3 control groups, one A group, one B group and having the three control groups report different values (Control 1 was better than Control 3 but worse than A but better than B)
Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
#180This made me laugh hysterically and gave me PTSD.