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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 romwell »

dr_orpheus wrote: post #38
grawprog wrote: post #32

Well...I did it...somehow...I did... 00:06:57 That seems too fast...apparently i've experienced these things far too much. It actually was filling me with rage. I came close to saying fuck it...I really did... Well done to the creators...you managed to, with 100% accuracy, capture every single thing that's horrible about signing up to websites. That bow thing though...gotta admit, was worth it just for the chuckle I…

I nearly quit when it said "your age and birthdate don't match". Glad I got through because the bow and check also gave me a laugh.

I absolutely expected that. Having both birthdate and age was the Chekhov's gun on that form.

The only thing better would be to have them on different form pages.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by romwell »

infogulch wrote: post #54

Love all the little details. Some favorites: * Clicking 'expand' button on any dialog (T&C) expanded the dialog to cover the page but doesn't expand the contents to match * Tiny flag icons to select country * The age slider that went from 0-180 years and didn't update as you slid it (fun on a trackpad) * number input for house number that required clicking on the arrows to change it one at a time * utterly ambiguous…

>number input for house number that required clicking on the arrows to change it one at a time

You might enjoy the Phone Number UI from Hell[1], and Google's implementation of it[2]

[1]https://qz.com/679782/

[2]https://i.redd.it/gns5ci5hp2yz.png

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by fernandotakai »

grawprog wrote: post #32

Well...I did it...somehow...I did... 00:06:57 That seems too fast...apparently i've experienced these things far too much. It actually was filling me with rage. I came close to saying fuck it...I really did... Well done to the creators...you managed to, with 100% accuracy, capture every single thing that's horrible about signing up to websites. That bow thing though...gotta admit, was worth it just for the chuckle I…

i did in 4:33 -- it was fun!

https://i.imgur.com/RiHmKZM.png

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by wongarsu »

infogulch wrote: post #54

Love all the little details. Some favorites: * Clicking 'expand' button on any dialog (T&C) expanded the dialog to cover the page but doesn't expand the contents to match * Tiny flag icons to select country * The age slider that went from 0-180 years and didn't update as you slid it (fun on a trackpad) * number input for house number that required clicking on the arrows to change it one at a time * utterly ambiguous…

Flag icons in grayscale. My country's flag is three equally large horizontal bars, just like 12 other nations (and a lot more if you count variations like little insignia etc). [1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triband_(flag)

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by analog31 »

doomroot wrote: post #60
systemvoltage wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a personal punishment policy for any obvious violation of UX/UI - they will permanently and irrevokably lose me as a customer. Even if they fix it, I won't budge. Leadership needs to use their own products and if they allow this to go to production, I wonder what they're doing behind the scenes. Small battles that I pick, but by god it is so satisfying.

So a small shop that can only pay 1 fresh bootcamp dev who is trying their hardest doesn’t get your business because they can’t keep up with several hundred Frontend google devs. Seems a little silly and absolutist.

It's a win-win. The small shop also can't afford to deal with this customer. Not to disparage either, but a first lesson for small businesses is that you can't chase every customer.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by Pxtl »

httpsterio wrote: post #76
kvirani wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My current real world frustration: a date picker for birthdate which starts in current year and I believe the native selector in Android/Chrome doesn't let you select a year. You hit left arrow to go down month by month. Am I crazy and did I miss this? Ive seen it a few times now!

Usually you can hit the year number and it'll let you skip whole years. But yeah.

iirc the Android 4 date picker had a microscopic hit-area on the date where, if clicked, would display a year-key-in dialog. I don't know if newer ones have this.

I hate date pickers so much that I use the Google Assistant in all its hellish, buggy glory to create appointments for my calendar on my phone.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by mjhagen »

wongarsu wrote: post #85
infogulch wrote: post #54

Love all the little details. Some favorites: * Clicking 'expand' button on any dialog (T&C) expanded the dialog to cover the page but doesn't expand the contents to match * Tiny flag icons to select country * The age slider that went from 0-180 years and didn't update as you slid it (fun on a trackpad) * number input for house number that required clicking on the arrows to change it one at a time * utterly ambiguous…

Flag icons in grayscale. My country's flag is three equally large horizontal bars, just like 12 other nations (and a lot more if you count variations like little insignia etc). [1] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triband_(flag)

I'm one of those 12 too, I just went to dev tools and searched for my country's 2 char code.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by squiggleblaz »

fernandotakai wrote: post #84
grawprog wrote: post #32

Well...I did it...somehow...I did... 00:06:57 That seems too fast...apparently i've experienced these things far too much. It actually was filling me with rage. I came close to saying fuck it...I really did... Well done to the creators...you managed to, with 100% accuracy, capture every single thing that's horrible about signing up to websites. That bow thing though...gotta admit, was worth it just for the chuckle I…

i did in 4:33 -- it was fun! https://i.imgur.com/RiHmKZM.png

You and I have very different definitions of fun! I got annoyed when it asked me for a profile picture and I just closed it.
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