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shellwizard
No mention of Spotify's terrible UX in mobile devices?
darknavi
Something extra hilarious about the UX of the website causing me to mis-click.

I tried to watch the YouTube video but the UX popped in and caused me to click on some other random link.

oatsandsugar
The "choose your date by selecting a substring of pi" is absolutely incredible.
infogulch
I couldn't find my birthday in the first 10 or so pages, so I clicked "Give up" and searched the page for it. Said my pi index was in the 100,000s. Went back to the ui to select it manually and gave up after clicking fast for minutes and I hadn't even hit index 50,000.
spacechild1
How do they prove that it is indeed possible to select any date? :)
mberning
The federal “eJuror” website is by far one of the worst websites in existence.
Foobar8568
Anything built with Microsoft Power Apps.
stronglikedan
Since it's bad UX, they should deliver the trophy as an NFT.

Also in the spirit of bad UX, clicking the winning link (Dalia) just reloads the current page, lol.

busymom0
> "Good question! It is a brilliant and culturally resonant concept!" - ChatGPT

This testimonial killed me because it's something ChatGPT will totally actually say

mNovak
The chatGPT endorsement is /chefs kiss/
nikanj
Can I nominate every single award flight finder from every airline? It's almost as if they want you to get frustrated and give up on trying to book your free flight
kylecazar
In the world champion date picker, I had to swipe exactly twice to get to my birthday. Once for the month and once for the year. The default day was right.

I had to do it several times again to confirm this was just absolutely absurd luck.

luoc
Too lazy to build it: Physically accurate bird view of the solar system at year zero of <INSTERT CALENDAR>. Grab whatever object with your mouse and move until reaching the desired point in time. Like grab Pluto to get somewhat near today, finetune with our Moon.
temporallobe
Reminds me of a video on The Onion where macbooks were using a single giant click-wheel as the sole input device.
hrudham
There is an easter egg in the date picker on April 25th.
dostick
That has nothing to do with actual bad UX, those are made up UX… jokes? pranks? I don’t know how to call it.

But it shows a bigger problem: the generation of designers grew up on abhorrent design that Figma normalised. They don’t know what bad is, they won’t recognise bad. Only outrageous made-up UX “pranks” are bad to them. How about showing an actual bad UX of Figma on their podcast?

Lowering the plank towards a fantasy bad UX makes any UX above it good.