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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 jrochkind1 »

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.

Please tell that to my Communications department. If they believe you, I'll owe you lots of beers.

I'd guess the thinking is "Well, I don't really understand those requirements and it's hard to be sure if we meet them, safest just to put the banner on." And "Well, if we don't need it, how come all these OTHER sites have it? You really think they're all wrong and you're right? What, are you a fancy pants lawyer now?"

"Cover your ass" is the main driving force of most of America.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by scarejunba »

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.

What about if you want to A/B test on a non-logged-in user?

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by smoyer »

xenocyon wrote: post #74
Fnoord wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

My kids always insisted on using the blink and marquee tags together :O

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by retSava »

penagwin wrote: post #48
mrfredward wrote: post #26

I 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.

Right? Every new web developer that first learns how to do animations REALLY over does them. It's like how elementary school kids write their "papers" in comic sans (and eight other fonts half-way through) and each word is a different color. Or they make a power point and every-single-dang-thing just HAS to spin into the slide.

> like how elementary school kids write their "papers" in comic sans (and eight other fonts half-way through) and each word is a different color

HA! I did that! I thought it made the essay more interesting to read, and it was a pain in the ass since I had to transfer the text by hand (ie rewrite it) in Deluxepaint on my Amiga 500, then print on our 9-needle matrix printer. Oh, how I miss the sound of that. Or do I?

Naturally, I was told by my teacher to never do it again.

Edit: I think I found the approx model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_vXA058EDY

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