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User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Oh god the terms and condition ultra slow scroll got me to close the page. This is brilliant.

The cookie approval dialogue was quite snappy though. Better than most implementations I've seen. Didn't reload the page. Didn't display a large spinner once you made a choice.

You can't decline the cookies though, nice touch there.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

#222

I like the chat help interface. It's almost as good as Asus', which I had the misfortune to be trying to use yesterday. https://www.asus.com/uk/ It's genius. It's got a little "online services" icon with a friendly smiley face with a microphone and headphones. You click on it, expecting an interactive chat but what you actually get is a photo of someone smiling hugely with headphones on and a laptop open, and a sideb…

Oh I definitely recognise this, it's using Microsoft's Bot Framework (https://dev.botframework.com/). I had to make a chatbot for a hospital during my end of studies internship.

I still don't get why people want chatbots as they're terrible UI, so frustrating to use even when they're made properly.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I scrolled down and still couldn't see the checkboxes under the last row. Maybe it also doesn't work on Firefox, because as trivial as it is to make a site that works everywhere no one does. Normally this frustrates me, but if that's the case here it kind of makes sense.

The checkboxes are actually above all of the images. I tried scrolling down, realized I couldn't, then scrolled up to find the unfilled row at the top...

facepalm this is even better.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

#226

I like the chat help interface. It's almost as good as Asus', which I had the misfortune to be trying to use yesterday. https://www.asus.com/uk/ It's genius. It's got a little "online services" icon with a friendly smiley face with a microphone and headphones. You click on it, expecting an interactive chat but what you actually get is a photo of someone smiling hugely with headphones on and a laptop open, and a sideb…

Asus definitely has the better cookies overlay at 80% of the screen on mobile.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

#227

That country selector that is all the country flags of the world in greyscale with colours only shown on mouse-over deserves a special mention. Not really a problem if you're just entering garbage information, but try to find the proper flag if you actually want the correct one. Bonus points if you are one of the many lucky citizens born under a flag that consists of three horizontal or vertical areas of equal size.

I have always dreamed of creating a country dropdown that was not in alphabetical order and contained historical countries/territories/empires that don't exist anymore. This is even better though.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

#228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I scrolled down and still couldn't see the checkboxes under the last row. Maybe it also doesn't work on Firefox, because as trivial as it is to make a site that works everywhere no one does. Normally this frustrates me, but if that's the case here it kind of makes sense.

The checkboxes are actually above all of the images. I tried scrolling down, realized I couldn't, then scrolled up to find the unfilled row at the top...

I’m pretty sure the top row of check boxes doesn’t appear until you scroll back up.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

#229
post #222

I like the chat help interface. It's almost as good as Asus', which I had the misfortune to be trying to use yesterday. https://www.asus.com/uk/ It's genius. It's got a little "online services" icon with a friendly smiley face with a microphone and headphones. You click on it, expecting an interactive chat but what you actually get is a photo of someone smiling hugely with headphones on and a laptop open, and a sideb…

Oh I definitely recognise this, it's using Microsoft's Bot Framework ( https://dev.botframework.com/ ). I had to make a chatbot for a hospital during my end of studies internship. I still don't get why people want chatbots as they're terrible UI, so frustrating to use even when they're made properly.

Come on, who doesn't want an interface that takes 5 times as long to use, misunderstands what you want most of the time, and trades clicking for typing and autocorrect fails? It's great!
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