User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

Well...I did it...somehow...I did...<p>00:06:57<p>That seems too fast...apparently i&#x27;ve experienced these things far too much. It actually was filling me with rage. I came close to saying fuck it...I really did...<p>Well done to the creators...you managed to, with 100% accuracy, capture every single thing that&#x27;s horrible about signing up to websites.<p>That bow thing though...gotta admit, was worth it just for the chuckle I got as I realized...

Love all the little details. Some favorites:<p>* Clicking &#x27;expand&#x27; button on any dialog (T&amp;C) expanded the dialog to cover the page but doesn&#x27;t expand the contents to match<p>* Tiny flag icons to select country<p>* The age slider that went from 0-180 years and didn&#x27;t update as you slid it (fun on a trackpad)<p>* number input for house number that required clicking on the arrows to change it one at a time<p>* utterly ambiguous human verification instructions

Only thing missing is deleting everything you entered into the entire form any time there is an error message

For Canadians... I love this one:<p><pre><code> ENTER YOUR POSTAL CODE: A1A1A1 &lt;- ERR! A1A 1A1 &lt;- ERR! A1A-1A1 YOU MAY PASS. </code></pre> Lazy %@$# front-end devs that can&#x27;t reformat the input!

I feel like I&#x27;ve been in this experiment for the last 20 years...

One past thread:<p><i>User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20344565" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20344565</a> - July 2019 (255 comments)

My favorite thing is the painfully slow animation when you send the chat box to the bottom.

03:51<p>I laughed out loud when I got to the bottom of the last page and didn&#x27;t see checkboxes and realized the checkboxes were <i>above</i> the pictures and not below and had to scroll to the top.

I laughed out loud at the expansion control in place of the &quot;close&quot; X in the corner of the T&amp;C modal.

Missed one worst-practice: I was able to paste a password

I love the double indirection on the cookie dialog. You&#x27;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.

This could be so much worse. Why does the form retain my information when I get something wrong? It should reset, or go back to the start.

I absolutely hated that, guess that&#x27;s a success.

Doesn’t appear to work on my tablet… so goal 110% achieved!<p>Edit: oh, heck, it does work—I completely missed the obvious misdirection!

My favorite part was the giant array of checked checkboxes and the instructions to only check three. I started mindlessly unchecking all of them and then accidentally hit the randomly placed &quot;select all&quot; checkbox once I got near the end. Legitimately made me laugh out loud at how absurd it was.

I appreciate this. I&#x27;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.

Thanks for the ideas, I will be sure to implement them in my next project.

This was actually hilarious, and honestly better than half the screens I&#x27;ve designed :-)

That country dropdown selector had me cracking up. And all the flags are not only unordered, but in black and white!

I remember when &lt;blink&gt;&lt;&#x2F;blink&gt; was the most annoying thing about HTML. Ooof.

Every time you click the &quot;help&quot; button its just says &quot;Please wait, there are X people in line.&quot; and just keeps going up every time.

Similar ideas: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;termsandconditions.game&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;termsandconditions.game&#x2F;</a> ; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27191795" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27191795</a>

This is interesting and potentially has value. To the end of deriving public value, is there source code or (non-)business logic that can provide an explanation to the choices made in developing this form?<p>Alternatively, and pessimistically, is this simply a successful marketing endeavour by a digital agency?

Actually, I have spend more time on some &#x27;real&#x27; sign up pages...<p>At least this time, I was constantly laughing about the somewhat absurd combinations. But I am missing some of the harder parts, like forms not showing because they are only loaded when you disable your ad-blocker or forms working in specific browser versions only. However, that would probably make it too hard&#x2F;realistic.<p>I love it!<p>PS: Just to give an example: The login form for the German Vorwerk website does not show in Firefox <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vorwerk.com&#x2F;de&#x2F;de&#x2F;s&#x2F;shop&#x2F;login" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vorwerk.com&#x2F;de&#x2F;de&#x2F;s&#x2F;shop&#x2F;login</a> and when you opt to register, the button just disappears, but nothing else happens... And yes, you need that form to actually buy products.

Somewhere a web designer is thinking, this is a lot like our website. What is so wrong with it?

I haven&#x27;t laughed this much in a while, well done! (Or... the opposite of that?)<p>I was just a little disappointed when I clicked the back button and it actually worked instead of the game hijacking it and filling my tab history with garbage.

I was expecting the benny hill theme to eventually start playing, this is hilarious.

Wow. That is painful.<p>I recognized a number of those issues from a number of sites I&#x27;ve visited.

I found the country selection by black and white flag to be deliciously horrible. And the bow captcha was just hilarious. Kudos to the creators for the level of absurdity of this form.

(2018)<p><i>2 years ago Discussion</i>: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20344565" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20344565</a>

My newest object of rage on many websites: the subscribe to our newsletter pop up you now get whenever your mouse moves to close the tab

New Windows 11 UI preview?

I genuinely gave up after two unsuccessful clicks. It probably says something about my personality or current state of mind.

I cant stop laughing trying to fill out forms.

4:52, but I had already given up on the first page once and then had to give it another go. Like others mentioned here, a lot of these are unfortunately common in the wild - the ones that always set me into a rage are placeholder texts that remain in the field as I type and the inability to tab through fields.

That was hilarious i gave up at the slow scrolling cookie consent template. Thanks for the laugh !!!

Thanks, I hate it (or love all the dark patterns in one place :) ). On mobile I have tried to go through the first form and rage quit after 3 minutes. How do you close that hurry up modal? You could only expand or lock it, but did not see how to close it.

I rage-quitted on the third captcha

See the Bad UI Battles Reddit about these kinds of patterns <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;badUIbattles&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;badUIbattles&#x2F;</a>

That&#x27;s some Douglas Adams[1] grade work, there. Bravo.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;msdos_Bureaucracy_1987" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;msdos_Bureaucracy_1987</a>

4:11<p>OMFG this is brilliant and somehow made me happy and angry at the same time. Well done.

00:02:53 I don&#x27;t think it was bad, there are were some frustrating moments such as having to put one&#x27;s age as well as birth date, uploading an image, and reading the password requirements.

“Select all checks” was my favourite. Half the time when I’m shown crosswalks I know they aren’t crosswalks but also know that I’m expected to click them, maybe, sometimes. So infuriating.

Drat! it took em: 00:09:23. That bloody accept terms and those checkmarks at the end got me good. Nice game and great way to get people to want to apply. Kudos to the creators.

The Help box grew over the page so I couldn&#x27;t get past that.

Lovely to see a small company I worked with seeing end up here!! If someone is looking for an agency, super fun and great people over there!!!!

I started laughing hysterically when I pressed &quot;send to bottom&quot; on the agent chatbox and it animated to minimise over ~30 seconds.

Couldn&#x27;t do it. Burn everything that does this.

God this is painful

It’s so bad I didn’t want to go past the 2nd page.

I got the fuck out after i clicked &quot;no&quot;

I rage-quit when I couldn&#x27;t scroll the T&amp;C fast enough. I guess my patience has gotten a lot worse as I have gotten older.

I can’t remember the last time I was this angry

8:52 on iPhone because I was laughing at checks with the chess photos.<p>It’s hard to find good satire anymore, appreciate their work.

I know I’m supposed to hate it, but at first glance the color scheme reminded me of NC and I … I … liked it

I hate you. Scrolling down terms and conditions felt like colonoscopy in slow motion . motherferken :D

I really like the box in the bottom right corner. That made me laugh out loud when it kept growing.

I gave up after the &quot;age and birth date don&#x27;t match&quot; pop-up. Nice site :)

That shit made my anxiety skyrocket.<p>Nice demonstration of the &quot;Never do this shit&quot; philosophy.

Nice touch pre-scrolling the terms, and making it scroll up quickly but down slowly

Reminded me of The Moron Test.

Truly frustrating, well done!

Oh, I wondered what our UI designers had been working on for the past month...

5:08 of my life that I&#x27;m not getting back.<p>Congratulations, that was infuriating :)

I hated it. Good Job!

cannot stop laughing!

It&#x27;s better than some websites I&#x27;ve used!

&quot;Your password can have at least 1 cyrillic character&quot;<p>Rofl

5:59 on an iPhone, why did I do this I don’t know

I think I found a bug. When I put 4-Aug-1978 for birthdate, and 41 for age, it said age and birthday don&#x27;t match.<p>It validated successfully on 42.<p>Although maybe that&#x27;s part of the game?

I can appreciate Nihilism-derived Humor.

I laughed at various points. well done.

How do I get past this?<p>&gt; Your password is not unsafe

Oh my nerves... what a stresstest.

Um why isn’t this working for me

Reminds me of job applications

10.22 that was frustrating...

Didnt hijack the back button

LOL what a nice joke on UI!

Took 8 mins to complete...

It… doesn’t feel all that bad. Maybe more par for the course?<p>Sure, some button styling is a bit messed up, but…

00:03:53<p>Much easier on mobile than desktop

I hate it. I love it.

bla I couldn&#x27;t find any acceptable password......

i could not figure out the captcha, did not complete.

Good one. Bravo!

Masochistic xD

Too realistic!

Hello

Yeye

7:03<p>amazing.