| ▲ | Bad UX World Cup 2025(badux.lol) |
| 110 points by CharlesW 5 hours ago | 29 comments |
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| ▲ | kylecazar 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | stronglikedan 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | oatsandsugar 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The "choose your date by selecting a substring of pi" is absolutely incredible. |
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| ▲ | spacechild1 2 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | How do they prove that it is indeed possible to select any date? :) | |
| ▲ | infogulch 32 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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. |
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| ▲ | matsemann 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Related: The worst volume control UI in the world
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27819384 |
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| ▲ | zahlman 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | darknavi 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | baduiux 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | 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. |
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| ▲ | luoc an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | jandrese an hour ago | parent [-] | | 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. |
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| ▲ | Foobar8568 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Anything built with Microsoft Power Apps. |
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| ▲ | StableAlkyne 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | psunavy03 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | At some point, doing things the "low code/no code" way turns out to be more painful than just . . . writing code. | | |
| ▲ | dylan604 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | for those that can write code. if you can't write code, the more painful way is just the way | | |
| ▲ | jimbokun 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | A lot of those people end up writing code without realizing they’re writing code. | | |
| ▲ | dylan604 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | Sohcahtoa82 an hour ago | parent [-] | | 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". |
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| ▲ | temporallobe an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Reminds me of a video on The Onion where macbooks were using a single giant click-wheel as the sole input device. |
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| ▲ | nikanj 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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 |
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| ▲ | busymom0 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > "Good question! It is a brilliant and culturally resonant concept!" - ChatGPT This testimonial killed me because it's something ChatGPT will totally actually say |
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| ▲ | mberning 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The federal “eJuror” website is by far one of the worst websites in existence. |
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| ▲ | psunavy03 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | 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. |
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| ▲ | shellwizard 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| No mention of Spotify's terrible UX in mobile devices? |
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| ▲ | monooso 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | 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) | | |
| ▲ | bunher 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | 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-bar 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I used to frequent interface Hall Of Shame a long time ago, unfortunately no longer active. http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/ | | |
| ▲ | andrepd an hour ago | parent [-] | | 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) |
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