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User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
- w_t_payne 7y agoBrilliant.
- elliotpage 7y agoI got a good laugh out of this for a few seconds before getting actually frustrated with it. Mostly because my bank does a lot of these terrible things.
- baq 7y agoi gave up on the second screen...
- cgriswald 7y agoI didn't, which to me says I've been trained very well by terrible design. If you manage to actually 'sign up' it tells you are a legend and rewards you with a Dancing Carlton gif[0]. [0] - https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/carlton-banks-dance/ https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/carlton-banks-dance/
- peterlk 7y agoReally? I couldn't seem to prove that I was human. I thought it just threw you into an infinite "prove you're human" loop at the end.
- anewhnaccount2 7y agoThere is a vertical scroll bar. You need to check them all because they're all checks.
- SamWhited 7y agoI scrolled down and still couldn't see the checkboxes under the last row. Maybe it also doesn't work on Firefox, because as trivial as it is to make a site that works everywhere no one does. Normally this frustrates me, but if that's the case here it kind of makes sense.
- jcranmer 7y agoThe checkboxes are actually above all of the images. I tried scrolling down, realized I couldn't, then scrolled up to find the unfilled row at the top...
- lisavanh 7y agoLOL LEGEND
- SamWhited 7y agofacepalm this is even better.
- PebblesRox 7y agoI’m pretty sure the top row of check boxes doesn’t appear until you scroll back up.
- eric_h 7y agoI did exactly that as well. I’m also happy that there appear to be several different captchas, as others mentioned ones I didn’t see. The best one I clicked through was “select every picture with glasses” and every picture had either eyeglasses, drinking glasses or panes of glass.
- dpwm 7y agoIn case anybody missed the humor in this, like I did the first time round: all of the pictures denote some kind of "check". Like with the bows. There are pictures of people checking things – a watch, and something else I can't quite see. There are games of chess in a state of check. There are monetary checks. There are check boxes.
- jandrese 7y agoMine was "select all checks" and had plaid cloth, chess kings in trouble, checkmarks, x marks, bank checks, etc... The one that almost got me was the popup with the timer that said "hurry up" but instead of a "go away" box it had a "full screen" box. I don't know how you are supposed to get rid of that box, I had to inspect element->delete node to get past it. I did manage to finish in a little over 5 minutes.
- hadrien01 7y agoYou need to check every box.
- throwanem 7y agoArray.from(document.querySelectorAll('input[type=checkbox')).forEach(e => e.click)
- x86_64Ubuntu 7y agoWait, how do you get to the second screen?
- daveFNbuck 7y ago> Please click HERE to GO to the next page The word HERE is a link, with styling and cursor set to look like normal text.
- gjsman-1000 7y agoMade it to the end in 03:39. Beat me. (Also, clarification: This was my first try.)
- Ygg2 7y agoOk, if you say so. Swings a baseball bat at you I was at 7min, the last part got me. My thoughts were.. Ok, it probably just means light, so I check a few. Fails. Let me try again... Nope. Five minutes later... what if it's all. No, it can't be that dumb. Bingo. Wow. It was that dumb.
- higginsc 7y ago5:33 no
- NKosmatos 7y agoHaha, how did you manage to pass the 4th page (image verification)?
- gjsman-1000 7y agoI initially tried selecting all of the boxes, and noticed the bottom row didn't have any boxes. So I scrolled up, saw some more checkboxes, and selected those. It worked.
- notamy 7y agoGosh, now I feel special for making it in "only" 3:10... :P
- gjsman-1000 7y agoOn my second try, 1:58.
- tannhaeuser 7y agoSeriously? There's tons of stuff missing, at the very least a cookie banner ("we value your privacy not") and "aw, snap, we're having probs to bla blah blah" and social media icons. Also, it's known that call-to-actions must come in a group of three, and have cute vectors. See [1] on how to do a website. [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/9pmqxb/typical_website_in_2018/ https://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/9pmqxb/typical_...
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- chinathrow 7y agoThere is indeed a cookie banner, at least for me.
- jle17 7y agoThere is a big red cookie banner showing up at some point though.
- silvester23 7y agoI actually got a cookie banner, of course with the close button hard to find.
- sjmulder 7y agoYet the site of the people who made this (Bagaar) does not have a privacy banner but happily contacts Google Analytics, DoubleClick, HotJar and HubSpot.
- cgriswald 7y agoThis is pretty genius and has stuff that reddit video doesn't even try to show. Just a few: 1. Checkboxes ambiguously located. 2. Poor instructions in captchas. 3. Text field suggestions that persist when you click on the field. 4. Pointless validation on inputs ...
- bluehatbrit 7y agoI'm very surprised there's no "sign up for our news letter" pop up and "hey don't go yet" when you move your mouse towards the close button.
- spiderfarmer 7y agoMy head hurts.
- warpspin 7y agoWorst practice? Seems to be a pretty standard website ;-)
- Wistar 7y agoAlas, it was all terribly familiar.
- sdegutis 7y agoThis is incredible. Pleasantly surprised every 2-3 seconds by things I didn't even think of. "Oh, it didn't mean whole email, just the first part" "Hmm tab doesn't work" "Oh, it didn't mean whole domain, just the first part" "Where's .com, oh I see" "Wait 'Next' isn't the big blue button?" "Oh I see, that big red message means my password is good." The 'How can we help' arrow just makes it grow slightly taller. Over and over. Heh heh heh. And that was just the first page! This is fun, had me genuinely chuckling quite a lot.
- alok99 7y agoTwo that made me laugh and think were on the last page: Choose images that contain a bow, where the images were of bows (archery), bows (ties), bows (hair ties), and bows (gesture). But then they really got me with the checkboxes for those images. You think they're beneath the images, but they're actually above and the frame was just scrolled down. You don't realize until you get to the bottom row and don't see any checkboxes
- cgriswald 7y ago> But then they really got me with the checkboxes for those images. You think they're beneath the images, but they're actually above and the frame was just scrolled down. I saw that immediately, but it still got me, because I tried to scroll down, thinking the checkboxes were beneath.
- ratsimihah 7y agoThe "Select All" box killed me
- maemilius 7y agoSame! Until I found the "Unselect All" box and was happy again.
- HackingWizard 7y agoWell, for me unselect doesn't actually work. To top it of I can't deselect some choices and no matter what it won't work. Stuck here.
- takumo 7y agoIts so terrible I love it.
- donquichotte 7y agoInstagram does something similar if it detects that you are on mobile. A huge banner advertising their app is displayed, and the [x] in the top right corner is almost impossible to hit.
- bagacrap 7y agoBetter than yelp (and some other sites I'm sure) which literally demand you install the app, ie provide little to no functionality on mobile web.
- verhey 7y agoFacebook Messenger is the worst for this if you try and use the mobile site (which is otherwise quite capable).
- noir_lord 7y agoPlayer.fm has the worst of those I’ve seen, I can hit collapse HN thread reliably but their comparatively huge x takes 3-4 attempts on mobile. I loathe it so much I stopped using it entirely and just book marked my favourite podcasts like a filthy savage.
- cousin_it 7y agoWe should make a website that does everything in the opposite way: 1) Require adblock 2) Banner saying the website doesn't use cookies, which goes away if you mouseover 3) If you're on mobile, show a banner saying the website doesn't have an app 4) A signup form, but when you try to focus it, it turns into a banner saying "jk this website doesn't have signup"
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- Fnoord 7y agoI 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 WWW.
- xenocyon 7y agoI 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.
- petee 7y agoEvery developer should be required to use this site daily for a month, before they can graduate. Simply using it once isn't enough ring home what you'll put your users through
- leadingthenet 7y agoIt’s not the developers, do you actually think they want this?
- blendergeek 7y agoThe "CAPTCHA" at the end is so on point. What exactly is a "bow"?
- deanalevitt 7y agoThis was the most fun I've had while building a ton of anxiety
- AstralStorm 7y agoMy touch screen does not click. You immediately lose.
- umvi 7y agoIs it possible to get past the verification stage? It just keeps recycling the same images over and over... Maybe I need to drink a verification can to help it along
- jchw 7y agoYou have to select every image. Because all of them match for some definition of whatever word you get.
- umvi 7y agoUgh, I thought there were a few in there to trick me. Like on the "check" one, there was a pen hovering over a checkbox but it was unchecked, so I didn't think that counted...
- maemilius 7y agoI only got through on the "bow" one, since it was very obvious that everything there was a "bow" of some kind.
- mrfredward 7y agoI 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.
- penagwin 7y agoRight? 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.
- retSava 7y ago> 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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_vXA058EDY
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoI wonder how much of this is related to how we teach kids initially -- everything is primary colours; schools value appearance of writing above content ('it's so neat'); it's all about big gestures, no subtlety; ...?
- elil17 7y agoOh god I’ve had this happen before. At my first job our CEO was so proud of the splash screen she designed that she asked me to slow down the apps loading time by three seconds.
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- failrate 7y agoAbsolutely bloody evil. Deeply reminiscent of 90% of my web usage when I make the mistake of going anywhere other than my default 10 websites.
- narrowtux 7y ago[SPOILER] since you have to tick all the boxes on the captcha page, this piece of code is actually faster to type in than to click everything: document.querySelectorAll(".icon.icon-check.checkbox__check").forEach(span => span.click())
- donutdan4114 7y agoI LOL'd when the Terms of Service came up and was scrolling at 1px per inch.
- joegahona 7y agoAn underappreciated portion of this section is "expand to full screen," which expands the white space to full screen but keeps the TOS frame the same size!
- velcrovan 7y ago“Your password can have at least one cyrillic character” WTF XD
- arkitaip 7y agoSome 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 discarding characters from the password the user has picked is just evil. It took me LOTS of registration attempts and password resets before I figured out what the hell was going on.
- v4n4d1s 7y agoMy Bank has a password character limit of 32, which actually is a 31 character limit and I was the first person to notice.
- penagwin 7y agoHa, bet somebody wrote < 32 instead of <=32
- penagwin 7y ago> Not supporting special characters I can kinda understand IIRC this is mostly done to prevent SQL injection attacks. In a modern system there is 0 reason not to allow any characters in the password (within whatever encoding you support).
- ben509 7y agoI 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...
- ilikehurdles 7y agoI’m surprised the back button on my browser wasn’t hijacked. Too many mainstream sites do this.
- makapuf 7y agoThis and URL rewrite !
- draw_down 7y agoHonest 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 want to make one, and especially didn't want it added to our site. Nobody likes them. They came from lawyers.
- saagarjha 7y agoCookie 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.
- sgt 7y agoWell said. I think a lot of people aren't aware of this.
- jrochkind1 7y agoPlease 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.
- scarejunba 7y agoWhat about if you want to A/B test on a non-logged-in user?
- stonogo 7y agoE-mail them and ask them nicely to volunteer for your research study. Agency's a bitch when someone else has it, eh?
- yodon 7y agoTruly brilliant. I confess I had to view source to figure out how to get to the second page (which I supposed is a form of UI in itself).
- penagwin 7y ago> Age and birth date don't match I hate you.
- jcranmer 7y agoIt only goes back to 1901, so what are you supposed to do if you're 159 years old... Lie?
- elil17 7y agoAlso >Gender and Title don’t match
- dwild 7y agoI actually appreciated this error because I couldn't figure out which color was the one selected.
- dvlsg 7y agoI have to admit I'm a little surprised the entire form wasn't cleared on a failure.
- motivated_gear 7y agoDon't give them any ideas
- nerdponx 7y agoThe slider that doesn't update until you let go of it is a nice touch.
- gagege 7y agoMy "favorite" is picking your address number by repeatedly clicking the tiny up arrow.
- samwhiteUK 7y ago
- OnlyRepliesToBS 7y agopoe's law
- corporateVeal27 7y agoI really like this. If these guys are smart, they could use it as an experiment to isolate how much impact a given "bad practice" has on a user's ability to accomplish their goal. Then if they're REALLY smart they could monetize that knowledge in the form of a course...
- stuffbyspencer 7y agoThere were so many surprises in this, I love it! Nice idea of hiding the top row of checkboxes for the human-verification step, I respect that evil genius :^)
- laythea 7y agoCome on, at least give us a "skip section" button? :)
- ghettoimp 7y agoOh 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.
- tandr 7y agoOn mac you can scroll to the end with Alt-Scroll (I use a mouse), it jumps right the bottom
- MrStonedOne 7y agoYou don't even have to do that step, just uncheck the I do not agree box.
- Arn_Thor 7y agoSaved by a Logitech mouse with infinity-scrolling or whatever they call it
- Khoth 7y agoPart of the user agreement, near the top, is "I agree not to speed up the scrolling by holding down alt"
- simonbw 7y agoThis froze and then crashed my browser (Chrome on iOS) while I was trying to type in a password. I’m not sure if that was intended, but I would definitely consider it a “worst-practice”.
- option_greek 7y agoYou 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 https://www.st.com/en/development-tools/stvd-stm8.html
- sgt 7y agoI'd be tempted to switch to TI just for that website.
- AWildC182 7y agoSilicon 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.
- nimchimpsky 7y agolol, thats brilliant.
- beaker52 7y agoDoesn't work on mobile grin
- l00sed 7y agoMy favorite thing is the slow descent of the help chat hahaha
- thomasjudge 7y agoAgree!
- dredmorbius 7y agoAnd the "raise" caret.
- Freak_NL 7y agoThat country selector that is all the country flags of the world in greyscale with colours only shown on mouse-over deserves a special mention. Not really a problem if you're just entering garbage information, but try to find the proper flag if you actually want the correct one. Bonus points if you are one of the many lucky citizens born under a flag that consists of three horizontal or vertical areas of equal size.
- wazoox 7y agoEven worse: several entries such as France, French Guyana share the exact same flag because they are, you know, the same country.
- dgfrfdLKSKD 7y agoThey are the same country edit: Not sure why the downvotes. French Guiana is a region of France (the country): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana
- JadeNB 7y ago> > Even worse: several entries such as France, French Guyana share the exact same flag because they are, you know, the same country. > They are the same country > edit: Not sure why the downvotes. French Guiana is a region of France (the country): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana Maybe the downvotes (not from me) were because your post initially appears to be correcting your parent (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20346737 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20346737), but is actually agreeing with it?
- makapuf 7y agoWell no, I think the parent is agreeing with the GP actually.
- joegahona 7y agoI have always dreamed of creating a country dropdown that was not in alphabetical order and contained historical countries/territories/empires that don't exist anymore. This is even better though.
- eitland 7y agoReminds 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.)
- hayksaakian 7y agoThis reminds me of games like "Papers Please"
- fredsted 7y agoI laughed out loud several times during this. It just brilliantly captures so many of the ways Web developers screw up user interfaces.
- nerdponx 7y agoI gave up at the fake captcha. Good job.
- is0metry 7y agoAnyone else get a flashback to the old Moron Test flash games/apps?
- n2dasun 7y agoThis is amazing. It took me 6:50, and I was laughing the entire way.
- 13415 7y agoHuh? The site did nothing in my Browser, no user interaction possible.
- dredmorbius 7y agoJS required
- shultays 7y agoBrilliant! Would suggest tick box part to not require all tick boxes to be ticked. So when user notices their wrong assumption with tick boxes being at bottom, they have to redo whole thing again
- sequoia 7y agoIs it possible to get through the captcha? I had to open console & edit the validate function to get through it.
- TacticalTable 7y agoYou have to scroll upwards to see that the checkboxes are above each picture.
- sequoia 7y agoBut I still couldn't figure out which ones were "checks" or "light pictures"
- nikisweeting 7y agoYou don't have to get all the picture choices right, you just have to select all the pictures on the last two screens.
- throwanem 7y agoThey all are! That's the joke. They're all "checks" because you have to check a box, they're all "light pictures" because that's how a computer display works, they're all "glasses" because they all have glass of some sort in them...
- jwr 7y agoThat looks like a clone of most airline sites that I regularly have to endure.
- plexuss 7y agoI am a UX designer with 30 years of digital design experience, 20 of those in UX/UI design. In my opinion, UX is dead. Companies don't want it. They still think they want it from a competition standpoint, but in terms of what value UX brings, they don't care and would prefer not to have it. UX in corporations is purely a political thing now. It used to be that commerical activity on the internet was not allowed. This was because, in part, we knew it would ruin the experience. Now, the internet is pretty much 100% commercialized. its a wasteland and it will only get worse. I have an exit strategy in play to get out of UX and anything to do with working on the internet. UX and UI design will be rolled into "design" and eventually be automated. Same with coding. So, if you think you have a nice career ahead of you as a UX or UI designer or a web developer, think again. Your days are numbered.
- mrpigeonpants 7y agoYikes. I see it the opposite way. My title has evolved from UX Designer to Product Designer. A lot of organizations have started to understand the value of design and are now giving us the power to think through everything, rather than just the optimization of a web form. Technology is evolving and expanding so quickly that there's exponential need for good design. I'm happy to hear you're getting out of UX though. I wouldn't want to go to a doctor who blatantly calls the whole medical industry a sham.
- dpcan 7y agoNice. I quit before trying to put in a password. Point taken. Point proven. A bad UI will be the end of your business.
- Micoloth 7y agoMan this was brilliant! I was laughing, but i got ptsd'd hard lol. I mean, you would not believe how _actually similar to this_ the websites of several, massive, especially state-run companies in my country are
- elialbert 7y agomissed a good opportunity to clear the form on every validation error
- sul4bh 7y agoBrilliant! Captures every frustration I have ever had with stupid-ass, half-baked web forms. Is there a form in there that messes up with your autofill? That could be a nice addition. I couldn't make it past the 1st form. I could feel my heartbeat go up as I was trying to figure my way around it. I had to close it so that I could remain calm for the rest of the day.
- leovander 7y agoReminds me of the Impossible Quiz[0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxzGSHbr5CQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxzGSHbr5CQ
- fnord77 7y agoOMG the captcha was the WORST there should be a cheat/bypass link on each page so you see everything without having to suffer
- k0dede 7y agoi cant get through the first screen. As a previous big-corp ui developer, it looks so familiar.
- blunte 7y agoThis was actually fun :), and it demonstrates in exaggerated form so many of the bad features of most websites.
- drummyfish 7y agoI think this is how old people feel using computers.
- throwanem 7y agoI got through in 2:45, and found myself very rarely surprised by any of the nonsense it pulled. I think that means either the people who designed the websites I use a lot are monsters, or I'm a monster, or maybe both.
- amatecha 7y agoThis is amazing, hahaha, expert-level trolling! I'm impressed by the degree to which they managed to capture all of the insanely frustrating UI design choices made on countless websites and software products.
- peternicky 7y agoThis is amazing...so often I get frustrated with real sites that I use which incorporate these 'worst-practices' but when I talk to non-technical folks about my issues, they don't understand 'dark patterns'. I plan on showing this to family and friends to help them realize how common these anti-patterns are.
- lallysingh 7y agoCan we hyperlink to specific features somehow? To explain specific bad behaviors by example.
- ourmandave 7y agoMy favorite part was how s-l-o-w-l-y the "How Can We Help?" dialog sank when I clicked Send to Bottom. I also appreciate how it would reappear and block the interface. But kind of disappointed it didn't instantly reappear if you moused over it. Or that it didn't randomly bounce for attention in my peripheral vision. And to the person out there thinking of making a front end framework based on this, just don't do it man! But if you do, I suppose you could call it BootAss or HateStrap.
- hermitdev 7y agoI had this happen today, in the wild, after visiting a HN linked Wired article. A few seconds on the page, a banner appears, blocking about a quarter of the page. Close it, start reading the article. 30 seconds later, the original banner reappears, again blocking a quarter of the page, and I close it again. I continue reading, think I hit a "click to read more button", another click. Keep reading, maybe two thirds of the way through the article, get bombarded with a modal dialog asking me subscribe to an email newsletter. Who the fuck is implementing these things and how do they justify this shit as contributing to the user experience? I came to your aite to read an article, not to be bombarded with ridiculously distracting prompts, banners and subscribe prompts - and this completely ignoring the intrusiveness of the ads with autoplaying video and audio. Shit like this really makes me rethink visiting sites like Wired, though they are by far not the only ones doing this, just the one that happened to me today. Why do web devs think this a good thing to do? Pull this crap in a desktop, sure as he'll would uninstall. /rant
- alanh 7y agowhen i see an interesting article, i just send it to Pocket (or Instapaper). I do this partially for time-shifting and/or text-to-speech purposes, but avoiding crap like this is a major benefit.
- WrtCdEvrydy 7y ago> Who the fuck is implementing these things A developer being told by management that Optimizely showed this design gives a 20% boost in conversion. I don't trust this tooling after creating 3 control groups, one A group, one B group and having the three control groups report different values (Control 1 was better than Control 3 but worse than A but better than B)
- jancsika 7y agoOnly interacted with it for about 5 minutes and I already love it. It needs an accompanying IRC channel where the devs shit all over you for not understanding how to use it.
- hartator 7y agothis is art.
- dredmorbius 7y agoActually, it's advertising.
- outworlder 7y ago"Select all pictures with a bow" Then you have an actual bow. Like in archery. Next to a bowtie. Ok fine. "Select all pictures of glasses" Now you have a glass window. And glasses, as in spectacles. Holy crap, that triggers me.
- makomk 7y agoDon't forget all the people who are, you know, bowing. Seriously, I'm pretty sure it rejects your captcha if you do. Sheer evil genius all the way through.
- TheRealSteel 7y agoClever. I would have gone with 'Select all images related to set'. If I recall correctly, 'set' has the most definitions of any English word, plus it could lead to some interesting contradictions, paradoxes, and confusion - any answer could be right! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox
- mistro 7y agoI'm pretty sure it changed relatively recently and is now "put", which has over 200 definitions (many of which overlap with "set")!
- kalleboo 7y agoI liked the "checks" where there were chess moves.
- moravak1984 7y agoGood for you, expensive joke... So what?
- mighty_bander 7y agoThat's the most fun I've had in days. Thank you!
- peter303 7y agoLooks like some my states's webpages.
- crehn 7y agoThis made me laugh hysterically and gave me PTSD.
- jakobpb 7y agoBeat it in 6:13! That was totally hilarious, the fake captcha was by far the hardest (just like the real deal).
- closeparen 7y agoI want a “.jpg” domain name now.
- D_Alex 7y agoThis was okay, but if you want to see how the pros do it, try to apply for a Russian visa on their Australian web site. Things I remember: - Not being able to enter my correct date of birth. At all. So you enter an incorrect date to get to the next screen, which is "I certify all information to be true and correct" - Having to list the personal details of every relative living in Russia. Where do you stop? - Having to list the details of every foreign trip you made in the last 10 years And if you try to phone in to ask for help: you are advised that the phone is answered on one day of the week, between 9 am and 12 noon. You get that message until 8:59, from 9:00 you get "all the lines are busy, you have been placed in a call queue" which changes back to the original at 12:00.
- chias 7y agoRAGE I got as far as trying to fill in my house number, hit backspace and got dumped at the beginning. Couldn't bring myself to start over.
- chias 7y agoI did start over. But then the second round captcha did me in. Too real.
- coconut85 7y agoLol, I couldn't even move further than the first step. Absolutely frustrating. Love it!
- bristleworm 7y agoThat was at the same time surprisingly entertaining and frustrating. Well done!
- joyjoyjoy 7y agoGreat. Love it. "Your password must have at least 1 Numeral." Please add: Your password must not end with a numeral.
- yaakushi 7y ago"Your password can have at least 1 cyrillic character." got me for a few good moments.
- tempguy9999 7y agoVery commendable - it doesn't work at all without javascript.
- egorfine 7y agoHilarious
- NJRBailey 7y agoUpload profile picture area didn't appear correctly in Edge, had to switch to Chrome. Don't know if this is intentional but it's definitely accurate from my experiences, lol. Reminds me of some old maths software we had to use in school which only ran in 'IE 6 or higher', but if you used IE 8 or above it would report the same 'use IE 6 or higher' message and not let you use the software. That software was also the only way to check whether your answers to the practise questions in the corresponding textbook were correct, which made revision pretty painful.
- wickerman 7y agoOh god the terms and condition ultra slow scroll got me to close the page. This is brilliant.
- lpellis 7y agoAnd the maximize button that maximized everything except the content
- worldsayshi 7y agoThe cookie approval dialogue was quite snappy though. Better than most implementations I've seen. Didn't reload the page. Didn't display a large spinner once you made a choice.
- distances 7y agoYou can't decline the cookies though, nice touch there.
- arayh 7y ago"Holding ALT to scroll faster is cheating and not allowed." This is interesting, since ALT + scrollwheel on Firefox is supposed to move forward and backward in your page history, but in the terms and conditions, it helps you scroll at normal speed.
- iocad 7y agoThat cookie bar ahah, brilliant!
- christogreeff 7y agoDisappointed that it's not responsive...
- HocusLocus 7y agoThis is like the movie Brazil, no longer funny because it has come true. If I was sure it was intended as a joke instead of a showcase of "best practices" it would be funny.
- gtsteve 7y agoThanks, I hate it. It's like a horrible fractal, the closer you look at it, the worse it gets.
- y0y 7y agoOh my god, the captcha at the end is so good. Is it even possible to get through?
- edouard-harris 7y agoThe trick is to select everything.
- chimprich 7y agoI like the chat help interface. It's almost as good as Asus', which I had the misfortune to be trying to use yesterday. https://www.asus.com/uk/ https://www.asus.com/uk/ It's genius. It's got a little "online services" icon with a friendly smiley face with a microphone and headphones. You click on it, expecting an interactive chat but what you actually get is a photo of someone smiling hugely with headphones on and a laptop open, and a sidebar where you can search their inadequate help documents. I'm glad it's a parody or it would be really insulting.
- phito 7y agoOh I definitely recognise this, it's using Microsoft's Bot Framework (https://dev.botframework.com/ https://dev.botframework.com/). I had to make a chatbot for a hospital during my end of studies internship. I still don't get why people want chatbots as they're terrible UI, so frustrating to use even when they're made properly.
- breischl 7y agoCome on, who doesn't want an interface that takes 5 times as long to use, misunderstands what you want most of the time, and trades clicking for typing and autocorrect fails? It's great!
- davnicwil 7y agoPeople don't want chatbots - businesses want(ed) them because they offer(ed) the promise of much cheaper support. Of course that's predicated on them working at all, which in practice they don't, obviously. Think that message has filtered through enough now that the hype surge that was in full swing a couple of years ago seems to have petered out again.
- Macha 7y agoIt seems to be a recurring pattern. Business introduce some new form of support that customers like because it means less waiting times and less automated gatekeeping, but then companies look to put that back in to save costs. Web chat was the previous quick way in, but now that's been automated and reduced to the same obtuse trees as phone or email support so now social media is the fast/less BS option. That too will pass.
- empoman 7y agoWe should pool our money to get this guy: https://theuserisdrunk.com/ https://theuserisdrunk.com/ to test that site :D
- MarkMMullin 7y agoAs an advertisement for a design company, this is top flight - these are people I could consider using. Every time I fiddle with the page I laugh.
- oliv__ 7y agoThe chat's "Send to bottom" button made my day. This is hilarious.
- social_quotient 7y agoI really like (read as: hate) the placeholder text not clearing out and then the user input text being the same color as the placeholder.
- dom96 7y agoI had a similar idea to parody the irritating practices of some news sites, where they have five different headings/footers, some with auto-playing video (I'm looking at you independent.co.uk), others with cookie warnings which take 30s to close (AFAIK theverge does this), some that are static and don't move when you scroll, others that disappear in arbitrary random ways when you scroll and reappear when you move the page just a little bit. I've seen websites that show so many that the news article is only visible through a tiny 10% sized crack. So frustrating.
- chmod775 7y agoThis is still better than certain news sites without an adblocker. At least it doesn't make my computer come to a screeching halt. Consider adding a bitcoin miner?
- vegardx 7y agoAlmost as infuriating as trying to cancel your Amazon Prime subscription.
- lisper 7y agoSo far I haven't seen anything on this site that I have not encountered on a real web site at one time or another (though this site is unique in bringing all these horrible design practices together in one place). This includes not being able to get past the captcha.
- phtrivier 7y agoNot that I want to brag, but, you can get past the captcha. You just have to mindlessly click everything (at least it worked for me. And yes, I should probably get a life, but I made this passed as UX research.)
- lisper 7y agoAh. I was proceeding on the assumption that a bow and a bow tie were not the same thing. Silly me. Still, nothing on this site was as bad as the "security questions" on the United Airlines site. All of their security questions are multiple choice. Here's an actual example: What is your favorite sport? Possible answers: Gymnastics Soccer Jai Alai Archery Snowboarding Volleyball Cycling Diving Ice skating Taekwondo Because obviously no one who flies United likes football or baseball. The worst thing is that when you have to answer the question the answers are presented in a different order than when you set them up, so a simple hack like "just pick the third answer" won't work. It's genuinely more frustrating than anything on the parody site.
- throwawaylolx 7y agoThis is a work of art, and I enjoyed every second of it.
- zeroxfe 7y agoI've never yelled at my computer. Until today.
- tomcooks 7y agogot to the end in 8 minutes, pity the job spontaneous candidacy form doesn't show up -- is this the final ruse?
- user99888 7y agoAsdd
- user99888 7y agoAggs
- Soroush 7y agoFunny, brilliant and super frustrating at the same time. Nicely done!
- hedora 7y agoAt least the text isn’t gray on gray!