[HN Gopher] Bad UX
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Bad UX
Author : liquid99
Score : 86 points
Date : 2025-08-01 18:48 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| x______________ wrote:
| I'm not seeing any changes on mobile, but weirdly getting a full
| AI answer in bad UX, while searching for Good UX offers no such
| prompt.
|
| Maybe the moral is that Good UX doesn't need bloated AI summaries
| on traditional search queries?
| Larrikin wrote:
| It's working on Firefox
| x______________ wrote:
| Android 11, Firefox 128.
|
| Saw it on Edge on win 10 though, nice.
|
| Edit: Got it to work, culprit was Noscript with a block on
| gststic.com
| betaby wrote:
| That's nice. Although I would expect the Apple's new liquid glass
| design as a first and most recent example.
| sugarpimpdorsey wrote:
| Comic Sans?
|
| I thought maybe displaying a dialog that says "SIGN IN WITH
| GOOGLE" front and center, that steals cursor focus (after a
| random delay), and covers content, might have been a better
| illustration of the phenomenon, considering it's more intrusive
| than the pop-under ads of the early 00's.
| snickerbockers wrote:
| "Click all squares containing a motorcycle."
|
| "Failure to verify. Click all squares containing a traffic
| signal."
|
| I hate how much unpaid labor I've given to Gemini just because
| so many sites fall for the DDOS shakedown. And I've heard the
| story about how PayPal's captcha saved the company or whatever,
| I just don't think the solution should be appointing Google as
| your gatekeeper.
| therein wrote:
| It is made worse by it not actually looking for the right
| answer at all stages of that process. Part of it you're
| training it, and it will take your word for it. Let's make
| that image appear slowly, like real slow fade in. Motorcycle?
| Include the rider, not include the rider? Does it matter? Who
| cares, we have made our mind about your IP already, this is
| just to annoy you.
|
| There is that one guy that orders 50lbs anvils from Amazon,
| just to return them. He has been doing that for 6 months.
| This is the kind of thing that makes a person do that.
| octo888 wrote:
| Yeah Google actually has a patent on the "unsolvable"
| captcha thing
| ayaros wrote:
| This is an incredible burn if I've ever seen one.
| timeon wrote:
| As someone, who haven't opened sites made by google in months,
| I got "we want your data" pop-up covering whole page. It was
| pretty bad UX.
| jpecar wrote:
| Wow, google suddenly looks much better. How do we make this
| change permanent? (not a joke)
| zaptheimpaler wrote:
| Just got a Comic Sans Everywhere extension on firefox, this is
| kind of awesome! Comic Sans gets a bad rap. I feel better already
| it kind of conveys the reality that everything on the internet is
| fake and were all clowns.
| kotaKat wrote:
| Odd, you'd think it would just redirect you to the pages about
| Material 3 Expressive. How do I get someone at Google to fix that
| bug?
| ZeroWidthJoiner wrote:
| Search results for "best font ever" has an easter egg as well.
| chiffre01 wrote:
| I worked with a guy years ago who passionately hated Comic Sans.
| I told him to email Vincent Connare, the Comic Sans inventor, and
| tell him how much he didn't like it, and he did.
|
| Anyway, no response until a year and a half later, then one day a
| simple F-you came back.
| spurgu wrote:
| "F-you" or "Fuck you"?
| Melatonic wrote:
| In comic sans?
| ayaros wrote:
| we can only hope so
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| The link on this submission can just be
| https://www.google.com/search?q=bad+UX
| JHorse wrote:
| If you haven't already seen theMcSweemey's classic "I'm Comic
| Sans, Asshole", I highly recommend you go check it out posthaste
|
| https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole
| anigbrowl wrote:
| A decade or so ago I opened the weekly legal trade newspaper and
| found a death notice for the senior partner of a boutique law
| firm in Comic Sans. Still trying to figure out what it meant.
| xnx wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_Easter_eggs#:~:...
| squidbeak wrote:
| Search results for its designer, Vincent Connare, also use it.
| Nice tribute.
|
| https://www.google.com/search?q=vincent+connare
| Theodores wrote:
| Comic Sans has its uses and there is also Shantell Sans that is
| an update on the concept for dyslexic people.
|
| Hating on Comic Sans is getting tired, those that call themselves
| 'designers' but merely imitate are the chief culprits.
|
| I have no use for the font, or rather, typeface, myself, but I
| don't belittle those that do use it. You can guarantee some
| charity fundraising thing pegged to the noticeboard in a
| supermarket will use Comic Sans, and I am okay with that. If
| there was a fridge magnet font by Fisher Price then I would be
| okay with that too.
|
| Imagine how boring the world would be without the little things
| that annoy 'designers'.
|
| I am okay with Google Easter Eggs, generally, just so long as
| Google have a top class product, but they have lost their edge,
| and, whilst the product is lacking, Easter Eggs will look silly.
| bigstrat2003 wrote:
| > Hating on Comic Sans is getting tired
|
| I was tired of the hate 20 years ago. And yet people still feel
| the need to keep beating the dead horse. It mystifies me.
| Sohcahtoa82 wrote:
| I hate Comic Sans, not because it's a bad typeface, but because
| it's misused.
|
| It's a playful font, so using it for playful things is great!
| Anything related to children's activities, it's a fine choice.
|
| But then people use it for things that _aren 't_ playful. A
| sign at your bank saying they're low on coins should not be in
| Comic Sans. Work e-mails should not be in Comic Sans. A resume
| should not be in Comic Sans unless you're applying for a
| literal clown job or Kindergarten teacher.
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| Related font easter egg
|
| try also https://www.google.com/search?q=times+new+roman
| theideaofcoffee wrote:
| The SRP also changes when you search 'Garamond' (as in the
| typeface).
|
| Edit: I guess this was already on the Google easter eggs wiki
| page, but I happened to find it randomly just recently.
| chatmasta wrote:
| You don't even need to search "Garamond" -- "garamonf" will get
| you the same result!
| ayewo wrote:
| Another such Easter egg is searching for "askew".
|
| https://www.google.com/search?q=askew
|
| PS: https://www.google.com/search?q=bad+UX is a cleaner
| submission link without any tracking.
| Oanid wrote:
| "BAD UX"
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| Any of Google's Android apps.
| econ wrote:
| Not having a maps option in the menu when you search for a city
| name.
|
| Pretending there to be a one size fits all solution when you
| have over a billion users.
| deafpolygon wrote:
| wow, i actually like it in comic sans!
| seabass wrote:
| Do a barrel roll
|
| https://www.google.com/search?q=do+a+barrel+roll
| bodge5000 wrote:
| Another one, when you google "vim" you get "did you mean:
| emacs" and vice versa
| omnibrain wrote:
| I tried to copy some files once. I was unsure about the
| syntax of "cp" and my sleep deprived brain did neither
| remember to just try "man cp", nor when I searched via Bing
| to add "syntax" to the search term "cp". This lead to a very
| stern warning, that let me wonder if I'm on a list now...
| cdrini wrote:
| Wow, I've never seen comic sans on mobile before, and... it kind
| of looks really nice?? I'm not sure why, but it looks totally
| different from windows! Maybe it's the high resolution display,
| but the font doesn't look as childish, and just looks slightly
| more organic than the default. And slightly easier on the eyes,
| too.
| thunderfork wrote:
| You might be seeing Comic Neue instead of the old classic,
| depending on what device fonts you have
| aatd86 wrote:
| I was thinking the same thing. It's not bad.
| rossant wrote:
| Since when searching a font on Google changes the UI text font?
| Tried with Garamond, Comic Sans, Times New Roman.
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