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User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

#51

Made it to the end in 03:39. Beat me. (Also, clarification: This was my first try.)

Haha, how did you manage to pass the 4th page (image verification)?

I initially tried selecting all of the boxes, and noticed the bottom row didn't have any boxes. So I scrolled up, saw some more checkboxes, and selected those. It worked.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

#52
post #38

Earlier 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.

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.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

#53
post #38

Earlier 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.

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.

The copyright symbol at the bottom left is followed by "lose". Very insidious.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

#54
post #38

Earlier 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.

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.

> I don't know how you are supposed to get rid of that box,

The bottom-left corner of the box says something like "©lose 2019." If you click it, it closes.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

#55
post #9

This is incredible. Pleasantly surprised every 2-3 seconds by things I didn't even think of. "Oh, it didn't mean whole email, just the first part" "Hmm tab doesn't work" "Oh, it didn't mean whole domain , just the first part" "Where's .com, oh I see" "Wait 'Next' isn't the big blue button?" "Oh I see, that big red message means my password is good." The 'How can we help' arrow just makes it grow slightly taller. Over…

The "Select All" box killed me

Same! Until I found the "Unselect All" box and was happy again.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

#56

“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 discarding characters from the password the user has picked is just evil. It took me LOTS of registration attempts and password resets before I figured out what the hell was going on.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

#57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a vertical scroll bar. You need to check them all because they're all checks.

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...

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

#58
post #10

I got a good laugh out of this for a few seconds before getting actually frustrated with it. Mostly because my bank does a lot of these terrible things.

i gave up on the second screen...

Wait, how do you get to the second screen?

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

#60
I really like this. If these guys are smart, they could use it as an experiment to isolate how much impact a given "bad practice" has on a user's ability to accomplish their goal. Then if they're REALLY smart they could monetize that knowledge in the form of a course...
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