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User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

#71
Oh man, well played!

Gave up at the user agreement, where you can't "accept" or dismiss until (presumably) you scroll to the bottom. The scrollbar is screwed up so that (1) wheeling is super slow and (2) you can't grab the elevator and drag it to the bottom of the shaft.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

#74
post #41

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 WW…

I rather miss those early days. Web 1.0 is looked down on for its visual clutter (and definitely the hatred of image backgrounds and animated text was well-deserved), but Web 2.0 has just as much if not more clutter, and of a darker nature.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

#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.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

#80

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"

5) Just sends you a newsletter
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