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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 ben509 »

arkitaip wrote: post #56
velcrovan wrote: post #33

“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…

I registered an account for some software company that was acquiring some other services, so the left hand wasn't talking to the right.

Sure enough, different parts of the site had different password requirements, and they enforced them on password change. So you could create an account on a sub-site that wasn't accepted on the main site, which was the only site with the password change page, but you couldn't enter the old password to fix it.

I think password reset did work, but I wound up creating another password that worked in one place but not another...

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by sgt »

saagarjha wrote: post #62
draw_down wrote: post #40

Honest 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.

Well said. I think a lot of people aren't aware of this.

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Post by eitland »

Reminds me that recently Bitwarden has placed the logout button under the password field so if you don’t pay attention you’ll type in your long password and the click log out.

No idea why they’d do that (although now that I think of it I guess one possible reason is someone inside Bitwarden tries to send a subtle message that they cannot be trusted any longer, kind of like raising a flag upside down to signal distress.)

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Post by AWildC182 »

option_greek wrote: post #75

You think that's bad, try downloading ST Visual develop IDE software from this stmicro site: https://www.st.com/en/development-tools/stvd-stm8.html

Silicon vendors are the absolute worst. Everything requires an especially arduous signup complete with employer, product usage grid, and favorite color and the websites are impossible to navigate because they were designed entirely by the marketing people.

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Post by tandr »

ghettoimp wrote: post #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.

On mac you can scroll to the end with Alt-Scroll (I use a mouse), it jumps right the bottom
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