Since it's bad UX, they should deliver the trophy as an NFT.
Also in the spirit of bad UX, clicking the winning link (Dalia) just reloads the current page, lol.
kylecazar16 hours ago
In the world champion date picker, I had to swipe exactly twice to get to my birthday. Once for the month and once for the year. The default day was right.
I had to do it several times again to confirm this was just absolutely absurd luck.
drob51810 hours ago
You must have an absurd birthday.
oatsandsugar17 hours ago
The "choose your date by selecting a substring of pi" is absolutely incredible.
infogulch14 hours ago
I couldn't find my birthday in the first 10 or so pages, so I clicked "Give up" and searched the page for it. Said my pi index was in the 100,000s. Went back to the ui to select it manually and gave up after clicking fast for minutes and I hadn't even hit index 50,000.
spacechild114 hours ago
How do they prove that it is indeed possible to select any date? :)
dmd14 hours ago
By search, since it's trivial to find any 8 digit string in the already-known digits of pi - in fact all 100 million combinations appear within the first ~2 billion digits.
sltkr11 hours ago
But the site only supports up to ~10 million digits! This seems like serious defect. How am I supposed to select dates before 01/01/1970 or after 31/12/2069?
handoflixue7 hours ago
If you were born after 31/12/2069, I dare say you're the time traveler, so you can just go back in time and fix the UX yourself.
Pooge4 hours ago
What if it's the date I plan to marry my AI love companion?
If I'm reading correctly this "world cup" is just a rip off of that thread. Pretty lame of them not to cite it.
darknavi18 hours ago
Something extra hilarious about the UX of the website causing me to mis-click.
I tried to watch the YouTube video but the UX popped in and caused me to click on some other random link.
baduiux17 hours ago
I think as long as it is a fun project (and not for real world applications) such experimental design is just fine. But yeah misclicking due to popups or other stuff is always annoying.
temporallobe15 hours ago
Reminds me of a video on The Onion where macbooks were using a single giant click-wheel as the sole input device.
luoc15 hours ago
Too lazy to build it: Physically accurate bird view of the solar system at year zero of <INSTERT CALENDAR>. Grab whatever object with your mouse and move until reaching the desired point in time. Like grab Pluto to get somewhat near today, finetune with our Moon.
jandrese15 hours ago
One of the date pickers has an overhead shot of Earth's orbit and you have to wind the planet back to get to the date.
Foobar856817 hours ago
Anything built with Microsoft Power Apps.
StableAlkyne16 hours ago
It boggles the mind that they built a "low code" interface to designing websites, with the express purpose of making it easy to use...
..and then used Excel formulas of all things as the basis for its scripting language.
It's as if they wanted these things to be as clunky and spaghettified as possible.
psunavy0316 hours ago
At some point, doing things the "low code/no code" way turns out to be more painful than just . . . writing code.
dylan60416 hours ago
for those that can write code. if you can't write code, the more painful way is just the way
jimbokun16 hours ago
A lot of those people end up writing code without realizing they’re writing code.
dylan60416 hours ago
I don't know the MS offering, but places like Wix/Square or using WordPress definitely do not end up with the user writing code.
Sohcahtoa8215 hours ago
Instead, you end up installing an endless list of plugins that are sometimes so poorly written that I've decided to call WordPress "RCE-as-a-Service".
dylan60412 hours ago
that just sounds more like a case of square peg and a round hole. Yes, WP is a nightmare just like NPM and its ilk are to me as well. Adding WP in my list was fraught for this level of response, and I realize now I should have left it off the list. It really doesn't do much for moving the conversation in the right direction
psunavy0314 hours ago
That's my point. At some point, people's fear of learning code is causing them to do things in ways that are unnecessary and overcomplicated, which is quite a bit ironic.
dylan60412 hours ago
You say fear. I say unnecessary for task at hand. My mom doesn't need to learn how to code to make a website for her florist. She just needs a site that can host some basic information like contact info, gallery of example images, and maybe some cheesy "about" page that people feel like is oh so important.
We're obviously reading a developer centric forum where people seem to have a hard time seeing things from anything other than a developer's point of view. Have hammer, everything is a nail situation. People just not wanting to become a coder isn't because they are scared of it. They just don't want to do it. I don't want to be a florist. I don't go bitching to florists that there's not an easy way to make floral arrangements without learning basics nor does it make me scared of it. Whatever "fear" you want to imply really makes you sound out of touch with non-developers.
drob51810 hours ago
Having been involved in a “no code” product, I’ll just say that it’s a really crappy way to write programs. You’re better off creating a DSL of some sort and asking people to type. Demanding that people click the mouse three times to open an input box where they can type something and then doing that a few hundred times is not “better.” It’s infuriating.
hrudham13 hours ago
There is an easter egg in the date picker on April 25th.
nikanj17 hours ago
Can I nominate every single award flight finder from every airline? It's almost as if they want you to get frustrated and give up on trying to book your free flight
busymom017 hours ago
> "Good question! It is a brilliant and culturally resonant concept!" - ChatGPT
This testimonial killed me because it's something ChatGPT will totally actually say
mNovak15 hours ago
The chatGPT endorsement is /chefs kiss/
mberning17 hours ago
The federal “eJuror” website is by far one of the worst websites in existence.
psunavy0316 hours ago
I haven't used the eJuror site personally, but having served 20 years active and reserve Navy, that is but the tip of the iceberg of shittily-implemented Federal government websites.
The "new and improved" cloud portal for doing Navy performance evaluations turned into such an unadulterated shitshow that everyone went back to the old system. A Visual Basic application bolted on top of an MS Access database . . . that originally was someone's side project in 1998.
shellwizard18 hours ago
No mention of Spotify's terrible UX in mobile devices?
monooso18 hours ago
It's a competition, not a teardown of in-the-wild bad UX.
From the website:
> Build a date picker with bad UX (the worse, the better)
bunher17 hours ago
Is there a place where one can post examples of in-the-wild bad UX? Such as a choice of „yes“ and „later“ without the option of „No, never“
Y-bar17 hours ago
I used to frequent interface Hall Of Shame a long time ago, unfortunately no longer active.
Since it's bad UX, they should deliver the trophy as an NFT.
Also in the spirit of bad UX, clicking the winning link (Dalia) just reloads the current page, lol.
In the world champion date picker, I had to swipe exactly twice to get to my birthday. Once for the month and once for the year. The default day was right.
I had to do it several times again to confirm this was just absolutely absurd luck.
You must have an absurd birthday.
The "choose your date by selecting a substring of pi" is absolutely incredible.
I couldn't find my birthday in the first 10 or so pages, so I clicked "Give up" and searched the page for it. Said my pi index was in the 100,000s. Went back to the ui to select it manually and gave up after clicking fast for minutes and I hadn't even hit index 50,000.
How do they prove that it is indeed possible to select any date? :)
By search, since it's trivial to find any 8 digit string in the already-known digits of pi - in fact all 100 million combinations appear within the first ~2 billion digits.
But the site only supports up to ~10 million digits! This seems like serious defect. How am I supposed to select dates before 01/01/1970 or after 31/12/2069?
If you were born after 31/12/2069, I dare say you're the time traveler, so you can just go back in time and fix the UX yourself.
What if it's the date I plan to marry my AI love companion?
I appreciate that the image https://badux.lol/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/ZIty0Vhmkm0nD-fBKJrT... is being animated with CSS. In fact, the page doesn't appear to require JavaScript for anything. Thumbs up.
It uses SVG filters! You can read about the effect here: https://henry.codes/writing/how-to-distort-text-with-svg/
Related: The worst volume control UI in the world https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27819384
If I'm reading correctly this "world cup" is just a rip off of that thread. Pretty lame of them not to cite it.
Something extra hilarious about the UX of the website causing me to mis-click.
I tried to watch the YouTube video but the UX popped in and caused me to click on some other random link.
I think as long as it is a fun project (and not for real world applications) such experimental design is just fine. But yeah misclicking due to popups or other stuff is always annoying.
Reminds me of a video on The Onion where macbooks were using a single giant click-wheel as the sole input device.
Too lazy to build it: Physically accurate bird view of the solar system at year zero of <INSTERT CALENDAR>. Grab whatever object with your mouse and move until reaching the desired point in time. Like grab Pluto to get somewhat near today, finetune with our Moon.
One of the date pickers has an overhead shot of Earth's orbit and you have to wind the planet back to get to the date.
Anything built with Microsoft Power Apps.
It boggles the mind that they built a "low code" interface to designing websites, with the express purpose of making it easy to use...
..and then used Excel formulas of all things as the basis for its scripting language.
It's as if they wanted these things to be as clunky and spaghettified as possible.
At some point, doing things the "low code/no code" way turns out to be more painful than just . . . writing code.
for those that can write code. if you can't write code, the more painful way is just the way
A lot of those people end up writing code without realizing they’re writing code.
I don't know the MS offering, but places like Wix/Square or using WordPress definitely do not end up with the user writing code.
Instead, you end up installing an endless list of plugins that are sometimes so poorly written that I've decided to call WordPress "RCE-as-a-Service".
that just sounds more like a case of square peg and a round hole. Yes, WP is a nightmare just like NPM and its ilk are to me as well. Adding WP in my list was fraught for this level of response, and I realize now I should have left it off the list. It really doesn't do much for moving the conversation in the right direction
That's my point. At some point, people's fear of learning code is causing them to do things in ways that are unnecessary and overcomplicated, which is quite a bit ironic.
You say fear. I say unnecessary for task at hand. My mom doesn't need to learn how to code to make a website for her florist. She just needs a site that can host some basic information like contact info, gallery of example images, and maybe some cheesy "about" page that people feel like is oh so important.
We're obviously reading a developer centric forum where people seem to have a hard time seeing things from anything other than a developer's point of view. Have hammer, everything is a nail situation. People just not wanting to become a coder isn't because they are scared of it. They just don't want to do it. I don't want to be a florist. I don't go bitching to florists that there's not an easy way to make floral arrangements without learning basics nor does it make me scared of it. Whatever "fear" you want to imply really makes you sound out of touch with non-developers.
Having been involved in a “no code” product, I’ll just say that it’s a really crappy way to write programs. You’re better off creating a DSL of some sort and asking people to type. Demanding that people click the mouse three times to open an input box where they can type something and then doing that a few hundred times is not “better.” It’s infuriating.
There is an easter egg in the date picker on April 25th.
Can I nominate every single award flight finder from every airline? It's almost as if they want you to get frustrated and give up on trying to book your free flight
> "Good question! It is a brilliant and culturally resonant concept!" - ChatGPT
This testimonial killed me because it's something ChatGPT will totally actually say
The chatGPT endorsement is /chefs kiss/
The federal “eJuror” website is by far one of the worst websites in existence.
I haven't used the eJuror site personally, but having served 20 years active and reserve Navy, that is but the tip of the iceberg of shittily-implemented Federal government websites.
The "new and improved" cloud portal for doing Navy performance evaluations turned into such an unadulterated shitshow that everyone went back to the old system. A Visual Basic application bolted on top of an MS Access database . . . that originally was someone's side project in 1998.
No mention of Spotify's terrible UX in mobile devices?
It's a competition, not a teardown of in-the-wild bad UX.
From the website:
> Build a date picker with bad UX (the worse, the better)
Is there a place where one can post examples of in-the-wild bad UX? Such as a choice of „yes“ and „later“ without the option of „No, never“
I used to frequent interface Hall Of Shame a long time ago, unfortunately no longer active.
http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/
Wow, I spent entirely too much time looking at that.
What does it mean if many of these entries are above-average in today's UI landscape? x)