i had to view source - for a second i thought this was a notpron-ish sort of game. Then i had to look again. There's no indication that you're hovering over something.
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.
Most horrible UX comes from too much software, not to little. If it was a single dev, they’d probably not have time to implement all the popups, dickbars, newsletter reminders, full screen interruptions, and dark patterns. Horrible UX takes large engineering effort.
It is usually the opposite - large enterprises have horrible UX than a mom & pop small shop. Furthermore, just because you're small doesn't mean you cannot fix UX of the user. I don't throw my money at them in charity or pity for being small. There are some great small businesses, and many not so great. Absolutist argument is perhaps in the point you're making.
I run a small side business with $2k/month in revenue and I damn well make sure that there are no annoyances to the user. This is standard expectation and has nothing to do with how big or small you are. We should all strive for excellence and not perpetuate mediocrity.
Regarding silliness - it would be silly to keep going to a restaurant that has rude service. That's what you're saying essentially.
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.
I love the double indirection on the cookie dialog. You're used to the small, unhighlighted option being the one to click to reject cookies, but here the question is asked the other way around, making the big button the one you want to click instead.
I appreciate this. I'm so sick of seeing links hit the top of HN that are utterly broken in landscape orientation because some stupid pop-up renders with the close button off-screen.
The worst was the initial scroll offset. I was wondering why the last row had no checkboxes below the images, and was unable select those images. After three or four times submitting that damn dialog I noticed that I can scroll up.
I also had to scroll down the terms and conditions dialog twice because I thought I could just click the text in order to toggle the checkbox.
I selected them all -- on every one it looked to me like they all were the thing -- I did not pass. At least not if getting another captcha means you didn't pass.
I gave up after the 6th captcha or so. If the answer is to check them all then that's a bit dishonest, because some pictures technically don't apply. For example, glass windows are not "glasses".
True! it's just that the convention is not to link to past submissions that didn't get interesting threads. Otherwise users get cranky when they click on the links and find nothing interesting there.
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 got as I realized...
I got nearly the same time, 06:58. Spent the most time on the bow.
If you liked this, you will enjoy the Phone Number UI from hell[1]. Surprisingly, I did see stuff like that in the wild - and from Google, of all places![2]
My favorite CAPTCHAs are when they don't state whether they're case-sensitive or not and it's hard to tell whether some characters are uppercase or lowercase.
6 minutes? Seriously? You guys must be pretty motivated.
I gave up after about 30s. I'd probably have given up after 60s, even if there was a prize at the end (e.g. being registered). I rebel violently when confronted by a UI crime-scene like that. I'm feeling ill after just two pages of that form.
> Well done to the creators...you managed to, with 100% accuracy, capture every single thing that's horrible about signing up to websites.
Oh no no no. For an authentic experience it needs to reload the page and wipe out all forms when you click 'next' and one of the fields is not valid. (And of course reloading the page should take at least five seconds.)
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 71.3 ms ] threadEdit: oh, heck, it does work—I completely missed the obvious misdirection!
I run a small side business with $2k/month in revenue and I damn well make sure that there are no annoyances to the user. This is standard expectation and has nothing to do with how big or small you are. We should all strive for excellence and not perpetuate mediocrity.
Regarding silliness - it would be silly to keep going to a restaurant that has rude service. That's what you're saying essentially.
Both are red flags.
I also had to scroll down the terms and conditions dialog twice because I thought I could just click the text in order to toggle the checkbox.
8 minutes and something. Very painful.
1: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Bureaucracy_1987
> Your password is not unsafe
User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344565 - July 2019 (255 comments)
and here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20345826 on July 3, 2019
and here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20351023 on July 4, 2019
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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 got as I realized...
The only thing better would be to have them on different form pages.
If you liked this, you will enjoy the Phone Number UI from hell[1]. Surprisingly, I did see stuff like that in the wild - and from Google, of all places![2]
[1]https://qz.com/679782/
[2]https://i.redd.it/gns5ci5hp2yz.png
https://i.imgur.com/RiHmKZM.png
Also, if you got to the capcha and got it on the first try, go back and fail it a few times. They have some really clever ones.
I gave up after about 30s. I'd probably have given up after 60s, even if there was a prize at the end (e.g. being registered). I rebel violently when confronted by a UI crime-scene like that. I'm feeling ill after just two pages of that form.
That's just an insane level of perseverance.
Oh no no no. For an authentic experience it needs to reload the page and wipe out all forms when you click 'next' and one of the fields is not valid. (And of course reloading the page should take at least five seconds.)