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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 joegahona »

hermitdev wrote: post #155
ourmandave wrote: post #144

My 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…

It's not "devs" -- it's shortsighted business staff focusing on short-term goals rather than longterm value and user happiness. Now that Wired is paywall and has been upfront about its shift to paywall and affiliate revenue, be prepared for more dark patterns like the ones you articulated.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by aasasd »

davnicwil wrote: post #233
phito wrote: post #222

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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.

Doesn't seem to have petered out if you look at freelance marketplaces—because you'll see a lot of chatbot writing jobs.

I wonder if I'm currently missing some slice of web life by not using any ‘support’ chat interfaces ever.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by joegahona »

rmidthun wrote: post #128
arkitaip wrote: post #56

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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…

I once registered a password using a special character, but I could not get in. It turned out that they url encoded it, if I used %21 instead of "!" I could get into the site.

I'm guessing you're the only user who figured that out. I would definitely request a password reset.

I saw a screenshot of an error dialogue on Reddit once (so possibly fake, but still hilarious) that said something like:

"You cannot use that password, because it's already in use by user Kegstand360"

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Post by eric_h »

jcranmer wrote: post #57
SamWhited wrote: post #52

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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 did exactly that as well. I’m also happy that there appear to be several different captchas, as others mentioned ones I didn’t see. The best one I clicked through was “select every picture with glasses” and every picture had either eyeglasses, drinking glasses or panes of glass.

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Post by narrowtux »

throwanem wrote: post #138
narrowtux wrote: post #31

[SPOILER] since you have to tick all the boxes on the captcha page, this piece of code is actually faster to type in than to click everything: document.querySelectorAll(".icon.icon-check.checkbox__check").forEach(span => span.click())

More concise to use an attribute selector: 'input[type=checkbox]'.

IIRC, the checkboxes weren't actual checkboxes. Yet another thing you can do wrong in UI.

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Post by thedaemon »

retzkek wrote: post #113
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #103

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But how else could you make sure people knew your content was coming soon!?!

"Under construction" gifs of course!

Relevant website with most of the under constructions GIFs. http://textfiles.com/underconstruction/
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