This hits too close to home.
If you haven’t seen it there are others in the worst telephone entry fields. https://imgur.com/gallery/C5lDZ
There’s also a collection of terrible volume controls out there.
I rarely laugh out loud and my coworkers are suspicious.
It’s not in the collection but I recall a phone entry where the slider would move along the digits of pi until you found your phone number.
That one was my favourite.
Especially when it makes someone stop and think about it.
Hang on… would that work?
An infinite, non repeating sequence of digits?
Yeah, that would contain all possible sequences of arbitrary length.
Found it https://i.imgur.com/rh0mDnK.gifv there is a discussion about this https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3495590/proof-of-the-existence-of-all-phone-numbers-in-pi
Apparently all combinations of 10 digits appear in the first 241641121048 digits of pi.
7 Dimensional Gender Coordinates got me
The compressed installer for doom was about 2MB if you wanted to use that as a gender.
Poe’s Law moment. I can’t tell whether the terms are made up for the sake of the meme or actually used by gender theorists.
Those look like names of medicines tbh.
My favourite is the “upload your genitals as jpeg”
I love those so much.
Those volume controls are fucking incredible.
The creativity of the awfulness amuses and disturbs me.
Somewhat more controversially there was a recent attempt at “improving” gender input fields.
What bugs me is: why in the fuck are they asking for people’s gender? Other than medical questions (where you specify your birth gender), I think for the vast majority of cases the question should not be relevant.
to be fair, the first colour picker isn’t too bad, it it?
My amusement comes from the fact that in most cases a gender input field is just an invasion of privacy, juxtaposed against these ridiculous over implementations. My favourite is the gender fluid one.
twitch
What a terrible day to have eyes
Thank you for reminding me of this masterpiece: https://youtube.com/shorts/XqNrO33bxmw
I appreciate the imgur links and not direct images.
Hi, I’m the creator of /r/baduibattles, and one of the mods of !bad_ui_battles@programming.dev if anyome here would like to submit terrible UI here
I don’t have an example, but I would like to see a rotary phone dial ui as input method for a phone number.
Edit: I see there’s mentions and a gif in another comment.
Hahaha I hadn’t seen the volume one before. I love it!
So simple. So dumb.
That second catapulting volume is cool
There are some pretty good gamified ones for the phone number.
“Is your phone ringing y/n” is my absolute favourite, but they’re all so good!
Is it bad that I kind of like the rotary phone input?
I swear I saw this guy posting his community’s submissions for the worst UI/best UI jokes and this was one of them
And don’t forget the mother of all bad interfaces game: http://userinyerface.com
Reminds me of birthday fields with manual drop downs. It is always faster to just type, especially for the month number which in the custom dropdowns often can’t be typed with the keyboard.
Plus there are native HTML date pickers now. Please!
2-Factor authentication
Click Continue when your authenticator app shows a code with two leading zeroes.
Power Bi has entered the chat
Great idea, they just requested one minor change: Make the slider circular so users can “dial” the number like everyone is used to.
There is a rotary phone one. https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/funny-worst-input-fields-11-5b235c170ebee__700.gif
Prevent people under 25 from using your form with this one weird trick.
A project on my todo list is add Bluetooth to an old bell rotary phone so I can make phone calls from it. Also I find it hilarious to use pulse dialing as an input for a cell phone.
No leading zeroes :(
Is there a Lemmy version of UI battles?
One of the mods posted a link https://programming.dev/comment/7679900
Could you not repost memes on the same instances two hours after the first person? Just save it and wait at least a week.
If I had seen it posted, I would have held off. I’m not subbed to every community on this instance if you saw it somewhere else.
So it begins…
