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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.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday July 07 2019, @03:47PM (2 children)
Basically a marketing stunt for the people behind this, but funny.
I quit after I downloaded avatar.png on page 2. Apparently it takes 8-10 minutes to complete the whole thing.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 07 2019, @04:54PM
Marketing home run baby!
they’ Now been featured on several tech oriented sites including that green one.
Unfortunately tech drones are probably not the target market , managers are.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Mer on Sunday July 07 2019, @05:08PM
I finished it in 6 minutes.
The interface is actually surprisingly user friendly. The useless chat window and cookie banner keep popping back up but they never overlap with the actual interface.
The email address form doesn't use a whitelist system to check for valid domains and fuck you over if you put something else than gmail/outlook/wanadoo.
The meatspace address doesn't require you to load a ressource intensive frame with an interactive map, force you to input the address formatted like it's in the database by having to click on the suggestions from what you type (with simply hitting enter not picking the top suggestion), and doesn't have half the suggestions for another country even though the step is for a local pizza place to check if you're in the delivery area.
There's a tricky "uncheck all" button in the choose 3 interests, but there's also a merciful uncheck all.
You don't have to start the whole process back from scratch if you mess up something, the fields don't even reset on the step you're on.
You don't have to put your phone number in there and wait for a text.
It uses javascript but only two first party scripts. It only has one third party domain (google analytics) and the site function is not impacted in the slightest if you block that.
It's sad to say but even with the intentional crappyness, it's a better experience than a lot of other sites I've had the displeasure to use.
Shut up!, he explained.