There were so many surprises in this, I love it!
Nice idea of hiding the top row of checkboxes for the human-verification step, I respect that evil genius :^)
User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
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Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
#62Honest question: Where do people think those cookie banners come from? Because, they aren't a dark pattern. They aren't a sneaky way to try to juice your engagement numbers. They didn't show up everywhere because growth hackers started getting jealous of the other guy's cookie banner. They are literally required by law, or at least many lawyers interpret the law in that way. The designers at my work really didn't wan…
Cookie banners are only really required if you're doing things like using them for "personalizing ads" and the like. If your cookies just there to check if you're logged in and other essential functions, you don't need a banner.
Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
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#64“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 discardin…
My Bank has a password character limit of 32, which actually is a 31 character limit and I was the first person to notice.
Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
#65“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 discardin…
> Not supporting special characters I can kinda understand
IIRC this is mostly done to prevent SQL injection attacks. In a modern system there is 0 reason not to allow any characters in the password (within whatever encoding you support).
Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
My Bank has a password character limit of 32, which actually is a 31 character limit and I was the first person to notice.
Ha, bet somebody wrote < 32 instead of <=32
Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
#67Made it to the end in 03:39. Beat me. (Also, clarification: This was my first try.)
Gosh, now I feel special for making it in "only" 3:10... :P
Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
#68Come on, at least give us a "skip section" button? :)
Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
#69We 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"
maybe: 2) only works with cookies disabled for the site
otherwise:
5) works better with Javascript disabled
6) works better in Firefox than Chrome
7) doesn't work if it can read your referer
Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
#70I 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.
Oh god I’ve had this happen before. At my first job our CEO was so proud of the splash screen she designed that she asked me to slow down the apps loading time by three seconds.