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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 Fnoord »

cousin_it wrote: post #21

We 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"

I like your idea, but it depends on what you see as "the opposite". There's already an opposite in existence:

1) Not complain about adblock (ie. silently allow it instead of moaning).

2) Simply don't use cookies.

3) Don't mention app (which is often just an Electron frontend anyway) in any way.

4) Allow the website to be used without signing up.

These 4 examples used to be the default back in the early days of the WWW.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by anewhnaccount2 »

peterlk wrote: post #38
cgriswald wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't, which to me says I've been trained very well by terrible design. If you manage to actually 'sign up' it tells you are a legend and rewards you with a Dancing Carlton gif[0]. [0] - https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/carlton-banks-dance/

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.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by jandrese »

peterlk wrote: post #38
cgriswald wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't, which to me says I've been trained very well by terrible design. If you manage to actually 'sign up' it tells you are a legend and rewards you with a Dancing Carlton gif[0]. [0] - https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/carlton-banks-dance/

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.

Mine was "select all checks" and had plaid cloth, chess kings in trouble, checkmarks, x marks, bank checks, etc...

The one that almost got me was the popup with the timer that said "hurry up" but instead of a "go away" box it had a "full screen" box. I don't know how you are supposed to get rid of that box, I had to inspect element->delete node to get past it.

I did manage to finish in a little over 5 minutes.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by hadrien01 »

peterlk wrote: post #38
cgriswald wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't, which to me says I've been trained very well by terrible design. If you manage to actually 'sign up' it tells you are a legend and rewards you with a Dancing Carlton gif[0]. [0] - https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/carlton-banks-dance/

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.

You need to check every box.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by penagwin »

mrfredward wrote: post #26

I about fell off my chair laughing with how slow closing the "how can we help" popover was. If I had to write a backstory for this I'd say some dev was really proud of animating that and wanted to make sure everyone noticed it.

Right? Every new web developer that first learns how to do animations REALLY over does them.

It's like how elementary school kids write their "papers" in comic sans (and eight other fonts half-way through) and each word is a different color. Or they make a power point and every-single-dang-thing just HAS to spin into the slide.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by maemilius »

umvi wrote: post #37
jchw wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have to select every image. Because all of them match for some definition of whatever word you get.

Ugh, I thought there were a few in there to trick me. Like on the "check" one, there was a pen hovering over a checkbox but it was unchecked, so I didn't think that counted...

I only got through on the "bow" one, since it was very obvious that everything there was a "bow" of some kind.
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