[HN Gopher] User In Yer Face, a worst-practise UI experiment (2018)
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User In Yer Face, a worst-practise UI experiment (2018)
Author : onion2k
Score : 318 points
Date : 2023-05-18 08:13 UTC (14 hours ago)
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| mattkevan wrote:
| Often thought about designing a print magazine with the same
| values as a web publication:
|
| * Agree to all sorts of scary things to take off the plastic
| wrapping
|
| * Peel off multiple big stickers on every page
|
| * Big heavy adverts that overlap the content and weigh pages down
|
| * Built-in Tile/Airtag to track location
|
| * Chumboxes for other magazines at the bottom of each article
|
| ...etc
| Waterluvian wrote:
| This sounds like a local "newspaper" that's 90% ads.
|
| I've got one that fully identifies as a newspaper but there
| isn't even a single article on the front page.
| morkalork wrote:
| Especially the ones with the sleezy ads on the backpage for
| massage and other services.
| troymc wrote:
| Also a CD-ROM from AOL!
| atorodius wrote:
| That'd be a fun art project imo
| AlecSchueler wrote:
| And then give it away for free of course!
| xp84 wrote:
| No, only the first couple articles you read are free, the
| rest are printed in disappearing ink so you get ONLY the ads
| and pop ups after that until you buy a subscription to the
| magazine on auto renew.
| danparsonson wrote:
| Excellent idea - and every time you try to put it down for a
| moment a hidden spring triggers and it flies up off the table
| and into your face
| p1mrx wrote:
| > Big heavy adverts that overlap the content and weigh pages
| down
|
| A lot of magazines have a rip-out subscription card like that.
| droopyEyelids wrote:
| the fall-out cards are even worse
| jjbinx007 wrote:
| Recreate the Amazon experience in a store by asking for their
| name so you can show them different prices and offers, then
| write down everything the shopper looks at, adds to their
| basket, and after they've paid sell their information to
| advertisers so they will see adverts for the lawnmower they've
| just bought for the next few days.
| WaitWaitWha wrote:
| This not my experience.
|
| I walk into the grocery store to get some fuji apples. I keep
| asking for fuji apple" but I am affixed with horse blinders
| and walked to the cell phone isle by a helpful clerk, and a
| bunch of iPhones are presented.
|
| I ask the clerk for "fruit fuji apple", and I am escorted to
| a different isle with all kinds of accessories for iPhone.
|
| I walk over to the fruits & vegetables department, stand in
| the isle with all kinds of apples, and ask for the "fuji
| apples" again. The clerk promptly walks me back to the iPhone
| accessory isles, and leaves me there.
|
| I go out of the store, ask a passer-by where the fuji apples
| are in the store, she tells me exactly. I walk into the
| store, go to the exact location, and see the fuji apples.
|
| I put it in my basket, walk to the check out. At the checkout
| the clerk asks me if I want to include a 1 year protection
| plan, or purchase a charger for my apples. I decline.
|
| I purchase it, go home and wait for the apples to show up at
| my door.
|
| Two days later the fruit show up. They are williams pears.
| mejthemage wrote:
| Try asking for "Fuji apple reddit" next time and you'll get
| pointed in the right direction
| ukuina wrote:
| Are you saying Amazon modifies prices for items based on
| which user is logged in?
| jimmySixDOF wrote:
| Not the question being asked exactly, but there are quite a
| few people testing the market for live dynamic in store
| shelf pricing where they can drop or raise on demand. Its a
| little odd to think that a jug of milk might be cheaper at
| 1pm than at 6pm.
| kitd wrote:
| Some sellers do this, yes.
| Thorrez wrote:
| On Amazon? How? Does Amazon provide an API allowing that?
| kitd wrote:
| Automated pricing, based on user interest.
|
| https://sell.amazon.com/tools/automate-pricing
| lxgr wrote:
| This still controls the price for _all_ users though, as
| far as I'm aware.
| naikrovek wrote:
| yes this is a known thing.
| hammyhavoc wrote:
| Any recent sources on it?
| petrw wrote:
| [flagged]
| hammyhavoc wrote:
| Rather than being smug, pompous, and having nothing
| useful to say, you could provide a recent source.
|
| What I did find on Google is several years old, and I
| can't replicate the pricing changes even with a VPN,
| different OS, different hardware, and different account.
| Even asked friends and family to tell me what prices they
| see.
| yazzku wrote:
| Browse without login from another device+ip. Back in the
| day it was subtle and you'd have to browse some category
| of shit for a while before the prices were inflated for
| your account.
| hammyhavoc wrote:
| Looks the same for me in the UK. Even tried it from a few
| VPNs, and tried it from my Linux disk.
| dredmorbius wrote:
| With in-store (B&M) tracking based on WiFi/Bluetooth
| signatures and facial recognition ... this is actually in
| many cases a near future if not already present reality.
|
| The principle difference being that shoppers aren't actually
| asked for their names.
|
| (Names are determinable through interpolation of those
| signatures, or through payment information by credit or debit
| card.)
| gs17 wrote:
| It should come with free cookies wrapped in consent notices.
|
| > * Agree to all sorts of scary things to take off the plastic
| wrapping
|
| Wouldn't it just be that one page (not visible without opening
| it, of course) has the terms and conditions you inherently
| agreed to by reading the cover?
| paulmooreparks wrote:
| > Big heavy adverts that overlap the content and weigh pages
| down
|
| PC Magazine, and other similar mags in the 90's/00's, was
| literally like this. I used to spend several minutes ripping
| the thick cardboard ads from every issue before trying to read
| it. At least web sites don't give me paper cuts.
| TAKEMYMONEY wrote:
| Needs a "sign up for our newsletter!" popover as well
| vrglvrglvrgl wrote:
| [dead]
| noman-land wrote:
| Brilliant work. This is the equivalent of internet hell. Horrible
| experience. Thank you.
| cosarara wrote:
| I gave up scrolling the terms and conditions.
| jaclaz wrote:
| Because you missed this line:
|
| > Holding ALT to scroll faster is cheating and not allowed.
|
| or wilfully decided to not cheat.
| lkbm wrote:
| Oh, I hadn't even seen that. You don't need to open them up.
| just uncheck the checkbox.
|
| The CAPTCHA at the end was my favorite part.
| isp wrote:
| Related - "Engineers are competing who creates the worst UI on
| Reddit" -
| https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1657755496852475906
|
| I particularly like:
|
| - https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1657755496852475906 -
| "Enter your phone number"
|
| - https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1657755532394889219 -
| "Volume control"
|
| - https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1657755789313069057 -
| "Checkbox with a 50% success rate"
| SimonPStevens wrote:
| Oh the irony of examples of bad UI being posted on twitter
| where I just get half a UI loading with spinners and can't see
| anything.
| andrepd wrote:
| I've got automatic redirects to nitter set up on all my
| devices.
| thimabi wrote:
| Real dark mode is great! I can actually see myself profiting
| from such a design in order to focus in dimly-lit environments.
|
| https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1657755808300519426?s=2...
| RobotToaster wrote:
| The QR code one could be made 1000% more annoying by making it
| one of those slider puzzles.
| all2 wrote:
| I now want a QR code slider puzzle.
| throwaway173738 wrote:
| Don't give Facebook any ideas.
| jonplackett wrote:
| I'm also going to plug a tangentially similar game I made
|
| https://termsandconditions.game
|
| I hope you hate it
| TheCapn wrote:
| 3:13! I had some good chuckles at finding "Unselect All" or
| "Select all Bows". Birthdates not matching on the one form got me
| too
| mgkimsal wrote:
| 5:34!
| jollyllama wrote:
| 09:21
| thih9 wrote:
| (mild spoiler alert) It took me 00:06:20 to complete and I
| enjoyed it a lot. I especially liked the ambiguous form state; I
| was never sure which part of the form is active or has been
| selected. I appreciate that it didn't feel needlessly unfair;
| e.g. when I accidentally clicked a "select all" button that undid
| all my work, there was also an "unselect all" button within
| reach.
|
| Loosely related: "The worst volume control UI in the world",
| https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world... .
| garysahota93 wrote:
| This made my heart boil with rage..... I LOVE IT
| docheinestages wrote:
| https://imgur.com/S0dPEZn
| nicetryguy wrote:
| I got 7:39; nice one!
|
| As funny as this is; it truly sarcastically encapsulates
| everything that is wrong with modern web design.
| EmileSonneveld wrote:
| I got 8:13. Checking all the checks took the most time
| aaab6767 wrote:
| [flagged]
| ranting-moth wrote:
| expect order of certain things.
|
| User interface is like reading, people
| finnh wrote:
| the slow-roll "send to bottom" on the chat box is so damn funny
| Tokkemon wrote:
| Web version of Homer disappearing into the bushes.
| wizofaus wrote:
| The ultimate Turing test? I'm willing to bet not even ChatGPT-11
| will have the sheer boneheaded level of determination only a
| human could ever achieve...
| avereveard wrote:
| Loved the placeholder that you have to delete, that's a classic
|
| The form field didn't reset to default values when submitting
| something that doesn't pass validation, that's probably a little
| too convenient.
| Clamchop wrote:
| Jeeze do I ever hate that.
|
| Also password or bank account fields that disable pasting. Just
| awful.
| Mistletoe wrote:
| This really doesn't seem that different from most 2023 websites.
| adhesive_wombat wrote:
| I literally was unable to purchase something from Currys on my
| phone, it was so bogged down in JS madness that it just didn't
| work. It would only work on my computer, and then only in
| Chromium (the payment flow just stopped loading after entering
| the card details on Firefox). When I did manage to place the
| order, the payment was processed twice, so that white loading
| screen in Firefox did so something. When I picked it up, I was
| told that they can't process online returns, I would have to
| take the extra one away, arrange a return online and then bring
| it back.
| jollyllama wrote:
| You are, of course, exaggerating a bit for rhetorical effect,
| but it is indeed too close to home. The bulk of my time was
| spent grappling with things that frequently give me a hassle on
| real websites.
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| The dialog box
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| The strenuous password requirements
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| Especially the "select all pictures of" bit. Anyone who has
| tried browsing with a proxy can confirm.
| titzer wrote:
| Getting there! It needs to completely randomize itself about
| halfway through your workflow. And more ratings! Don't forget to
| like us and give us five stars. About the exact moment you are
| ready to finish.
| _joel wrote:
| Wow, those timers are fear inducing
| cwillu wrote:
| How can we help?
| trizoza wrote:
| Love this! There used to be a similar site on HN some time ago,
| something in a sense "How I see internet these days" and endless
| pop-ups kept on annoying you. Anyone remembers that?
| TeMPOraL wrote:
| Oh, I know that one. It comes built-in as an easter egg in
| uBlock Origin - you can open it by clicking the big "Power"
| button that shows after you click the uBO logo in the browser
| toolbar.
| yccs27 wrote:
| Doesn't work on Hacker News though
| user3939382 wrote:
| Yep exactly
| sgtnasty wrote:
| Bravo, alas I could not finish, my anxiety got in the way. There
| are actual gov forms similar this.
| quickthrower2 wrote:
| No back button hijack?
| btschaegg wrote:
| Came here to say this too. That definitely leaves some UX
| pessimisation potential on the table.
| m3kw9 wrote:
| Is like a tough game
| splittydev wrote:
| 5m50s, how did I do?
| lkbm wrote:
| 4:49 for me, but I cheated. My address number is 1744, and I
| quit incrementing at 5. I suspect it would've been well past 7
| minutes if I'd been determined to enter accurate information.
| numeromancer wrote:
| The only winning move is not to play.
| alphabetter wrote:
| 4'17 mostly because I was laughing so hard.
|
| The captcha with the hononyms and the selection boxes where you
| don't expect them is genius.
| tsu_tsu wrote:
| Can't even beat level 1... are there more pages than just the
| frontpage!?
| a13o wrote:
| This is what my nightmares are like. I have to do something
| simple like fill out a form or unlock a door, and everything that
| can possibly go wrong goes wrong
| mellosouls wrote:
| Brilliant website!
|
| Previous extensive discussions fwiw:
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27635310 (2021)
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344565 (2019)
| dang wrote:
| Thanks! Macroexpanded:
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| _User Inyerface - A worst-practice UI experiment_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27635310 - June 2021 (215
| comments)
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| _User Inyerface_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20345826 - July 2019 (1
| comment)
|
| _User Inyerface - A worst-practice UI experiment_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344565 - July 2019 (255
| comments)
| mlajtos wrote:
| There is whole subreddit dedicated to these kind of UIs:
| https://www.reddit.com/r/badUIbattles/top/?t=all
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| Enjoy.
| lesuorac wrote:
| I'm pretty partial to that draw your countries flag [1]
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| [1]:
| https://old.reddit.com/r/badUIbattles/comments/g4aytv/tired_...
| pelagicAustral wrote:
| I love that meme of the Phone number input being a trackbar.
| julian_t wrote:
| My pet insurer's web site has a box for you to enter your
| policy number, which only accepts numbers and has a spinner.
| The policy number is seven digits long. It's sort of fun typing
| the first few and then playing with the up and down arrows.
| pedro_hab wrote:
| The pw really stressed me, I checked the source code to find what
| a valid pw looked like.
|
| Pretty cool code btw, it has a rule array that with the error
| msgs, very easy to follow even tho it was webpacky.
|
| Then I realized the errors were displayed at the bottom of the
| page.
| xp84 wrote:
| Reminds me of the cursed form fields that don't allow pasting for
| bank account numbers, which I've seen recently at multiple
| financial sites. What on earth makes them think that typing
| something manually twice is less error-prone than literally
| pasting it from a known-good source??
| dredmorbius wrote:
| Discussed previously on HN:
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| <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27635310> 2 years ago | 215
| comments
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| <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353724> 4 years ago | 44
| comments
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| <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20345826> 4 years ago | 1
| comments
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| <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344565> 4 years ago | 214
| comments
|
| (Re-posts after a year of no significant discussion are
| permitted.)
| ironmagma wrote:
| Still HN: frontend development takes no skill
| rabuse wrote:
| I do have to say. In all my years (10+) of programming both
| frontend, and backend, UI is by far the most difficult thing to
| do properly.
| solarkraft wrote:
| My favorite was the "select all" check box.
| [deleted]
| dheera wrote:
| The site actually _crashed_ Chrome as soon as I uploaded an file,
| to the point where even mouse clicks on the address bar or other
| tabs wouldn 't work. I didn't think that was supposed to be
| possible. I guess we can dig into the code and figure out how to
| crash peoples' browsers with a website?
|
| @ChromeDevTeam Your bug reporting process is too complicated so
| I'm just leaving this here on the internet for you to find
| sergiomattei wrote:
| Seven minutes. The most aggravating seven minutes of my life.
| mm007emko wrote:
| 3:10. Honestly, I would expect meatspin at the final page.
| Tokkemon wrote:
| Me too. The design brings back memories of those old jumpscare
| flash games.
| ra1n wrote:
| The send to bottom button making the dialog go down slowly was so
| hilarious !
| [deleted]
| codeulike wrote:
| that got me too. The very slow speed of it
| devmor wrote:
| Incredible! I got 3 steps in before I wanted to die.
| madisonmay wrote:
| Thanks, I hate it.
| alex-moon wrote:
| I couldn't get past the captchas. I wonder if it's possible to do
| so...?
| 4pkjai wrote:
| I failed it a few times, but passed when I got the glasses
| option and selected every box.
| alex-moon wrote:
| What did you put for light and circle ones?
| codetiger wrote:
| Most of the images in light, bow and circle has to be
| selected. I passed the test in bow with all images
| selected.
| gamerDude wrote:
| They all have bows.
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| Bow ties. Hunting bows. And people bowing.
| GauntletWizard wrote:
| I was disappointed there were no "bow"s of a ship. I
| guess they all fell off.
| 4pkjai wrote:
| Very clever, I enjoyed getting past all that. I have seen the
| "needs-to-be-deleted" placeholder text in the wild before. It's
| very silly.
| yellowapple wrote:
| 4:22: https://imgur.com/Wv9zZci
|
| Naturally, the process of uploading that screenshot to Imgur made
| me wonder if I was still in the "experiment".
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