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posted by martyb on Sunday July 07 2019, @02:35PM   Printer-friendly
from the anti-patterns dept.

Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956

Sometimes we take Web and user interface design for granted—that's the point of User Inyerface, a hilariously and deliberately difficult-to-use website created to show just how much we rely on past habits and design conventions to interact with the Web and our digital devices.

According to design firm Bagaar's blog:

Over the past decennium, users have grown accustomed to certain design patterns: positions, colors, icons... Rather than looking at a UI, users tend to act instinctively and take 90% of an interface for granted.

... But what happens if we poke all good practice with a stick and stir it up? What if we don't respect our self-created rules and expectations and do everything the other way around?

The resulting website is a gauntlet of nearly impossible-to-parse interactions that are as funny as they are infuriating. In one case, the colors for the male and female selection options in a personal info form are reversed compared to expectations: the white-backgrounded one is the selection, while the blue-highlighted one is the one you're not picking—and there's no non-binary option, either, of course.

The linked web site requires Javascript, or you can just look at the pictures and captions on Ars Technica to get a feel for the ghastly gauntlet in all its "glory".

For more viewing "pleasure", please see Web Pages That Suck and Mystery Meat Navigation.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/07/behold-the-most-intentionally-poorly-designed-website-ever-created/


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by SomeGuy on Sunday July 07 2019, @03:35PM (12 children)

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Sunday July 07 2019, @03:35PM (#864134)

    They forgot a couple, or I didn't see them.

    - Using slider switches like: (0 ) to set option with NO indication which way is on or off, except perhaps changing to random colors.

    - An ever present and totally useless "Feedback" tab that floats on the right edge, in addition to the "talk to a live person" window.

    - Full motion auto-playing video.

    - Piles of logos for social media web sides, that are really advertising, but oddly they don't get paid for them.

    - Embedded twitter feed

    - Popovers to sign up for newsletters

    - Moar popovers to ask if you want to take a survey

    - Asking to disable ad blockers, virus scanners, and removing my pants for an ass raping.

    - Munging the layout in to an unusable mess if the browser window is 1024*768 or less. Not everyone is an idiot that runs things full screen.

    - Complaining about browser compatiblity

    - Blocking me as a potential D.O.S. attack for not using the latest browser or one of the big three.

    Interestingly, some of the images on the CAPTCHA page didn't load for me. Not sure if that was intentional, but that is the sort of thing that happens all the time to me. Some single element of all 9,000,000 they load at once fails to load for whatever reason, rendering a page completely unusable.

    The sad thing is that somewhere there are a pile of web designers that are thinking to themselves "I am not being seeing anything wrong with this page".

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Nerdfest on Sunday July 07 2019, @04:09PM (2 children)

    by Nerdfest (80) on Sunday July 07 2019, @04:09PM (#864147)

    Asking to disable ad blockers, virus scanners, and removing my pants for an ass raping.

    We keep telling you: STOP. USING. WINDOWS.

    • (Score: 4, Interesting) by AthanasiusKircher on Sunday July 07 2019, @04:48PM (1 child)

      by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Sunday July 07 2019, @04:48PM (#864158) Journal

      I'm sure many folks have seen this before, but this image [wp.com] comparing Windows, Linux, and OS X is apropos to parent's comment.

      (If anyone knows the original source of this image, I'd be curious to know where it came from...)

      • (Score: 3, Funny) by Nerdfest on Monday July 08 2019, @03:34AM

        by Nerdfest (80) on Monday July 08 2019, @03:34AM (#864313)

        My favourite has always been this [pinimg.com] one.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by looorg on Sunday July 07 2019, @04:54PM (1 child)

    by looorg (578) on Sunday July 07 2019, @04:54PM (#864161)

    Not enough blinking GIF-animations.

  • (Score: 2, Touché) by hendrikboom on Sunday July 07 2019, @05:17PM (2 children)

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Sunday July 07 2019, @05:17PM (#864168) Homepage Journal

    Asking to disable ad blockers, virus scanners, and removing my pants for an ass raping.

    I've never encountered a web page that asked me to disable removing my pants.

    -- hendrik

    • (Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday July 07 2019, @09:07PM

      by Bot (3902) on Sunday July 07 2019, @09:07PM (#864216) Journal

      Please disable removing your pants.

      ur welcome.

      --
      Account abandoned.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 07 2019, @11:18PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 07 2019, @11:18PM (#864248)

      You have not been to enough file sharing sites. With the crap some of them try to push on to your computer, you know they would reach out through the screen and rape you if they could.

  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday July 07 2019, @09:06PM

    by Bot (3902) on Sunday July 07 2019, @09:06PM (#864215) Journal

    And the javascript confirmation dialog with confusing choices. Unless they put it already, I am not gonna inflict on myself another bad UX voluntarily, you see.
    "You opted to cancel the submission."
    [cancel] [go back]

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    Account abandoned.
  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by toddestan on Monday July 08 2019, @12:14AM

    by toddestan (4982) on Monday July 08 2019, @12:14AM (#864265)

    The point of their website is to create something that purposely doesn't follow the conventions commonly used on the modern web.

    Everything you list is crap that every other mainstream website seems to do nowadays.

    Of course, they could have also accomplished their goal by creating a simple, clean, functional website with the information clearly laid out, using a minimum of Javascript and CSS. But that would not have been infuriating to use.

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 08 2019, @04:30AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 08 2019, @04:30AM (#864338)

    Yes, I run Palemoon.
    No it's not Firefox.
    No. It's not out of date.
    Yes, disabling your site functionality due to a browser version check blows. I am looking at you, DynaTrace.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 08 2019, @10:27AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 08 2019, @10:27AM (#864412)

      > Yes, I run Palemoon.
      > Yes, I run Pale Moon.

      FTFY.