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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: 4, Interesting) by istartedi on Sunday July 07 2019, @06:58PM (3 children)
It feels more like an innocent little "dead" site to me. If you really want bad, you need to copy some of the online news sites. One of our local ones actually has ads that cause the text to jump every two seconds. God forbid you're actually interested in reading something there. I recently was, and worked around it by ctrl-C, ctrl-V, Notepad. It was so nice to read text that flowed in Notepad, with no blinking! Top that.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by sshelton76 on Sunday July 07 2019, @09:24PM (2 children)
I wrote an extension for chrome to deal with exactly that situation.
It's called PJ Web or Plain Jane web. You can get the code from github
https://github.com/aviv-official/pjweb [github.com]
One click and it replaces the page contents with the text content of the page. It keeps links in tact, but removes all the JS, CSS and other non-sense.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 07 2019, @11:23PM (1 child)
Thanks!
I'm collecting as many workarounds as I can for this problem.
It seems modern executive types are doing their darndest to frustrate anyone who stumbles on to their website.
But then, I know I am just a customer. I rank nowhere near the importance of a marketing seminar leader. we have a in
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 08 2019, @04:24AM
You are just a customer. You rank nowhere near the importance of an investor.