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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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Post by codewiz »

codewiz wrote: post #230
social_quotient wrote: post #224

I really like (read as: hate) the placeholder text not clearing out and then the user input text being the same color as the placeholder.

That's so typical of airline booking websites!

And then everyone crucifies Boeing for their user interface bugs...

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by dom96 »

I had a similar idea to parody the irritating practices of some news sites, where they have five different headings/footers, some with auto-playing video (I'm looking at you independent.co.uk), others with cookie warnings which take 30s to close (AFAIK theverge does this), some that are static and don't move when you scroll, others that disappear in arbitrary random ways when you scroll and reappear when you move the page just a little bit.

I've seen websites that show so many that the news article is only visible through a tiny 10% sized crack. So frustrating.

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Post by davnicwil »

phito wrote: post #222
chimprich wrote: post #216

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.

People don't want chatbots - businesses want(ed) them because they offer(ed) the promise of much cheaper support. Of course that's predicated on them working at all, which in practice they don't, obviously. Think that message has filtered through enough now that the hype surge that was in full swing a couple of years ago seems to have petered out again.

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Post by garaetjjte »

chimprich wrote: post #216

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…

I find it funny that stock photo with laptop have ASUS logo copypasted on it. https://icr-emea.asus.com/webchat/image/cover-photo.jpg

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Post by jmiserez »

Freak_NL wrote: post #79

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.

And the months being sorted alphabetically was great too!

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by lone_haxx0r »

garaetjjte wrote: post #236
chimprich wrote: post #216

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…

I find it funny that stock photo with laptop have ASUS logo copypasted on it. https://icr-emea.asus.com/webchat/image/cover-photo.jpg

It appears that it isn't even aligned.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by lisper »

So far I haven't seen anything on this site that I have not encountered on a real web site at one time or another (though this site is unique in bringing all these horrible design practices together in one place). This includes not being able to get past the captcha.
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