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[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 137 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (16 children)

If you haven’t seen it there are others in the worst telephone entry fields. https://imgur.com/a/4f3XB

There’s also a collection of terrible volume controls out there. https://imgur.com/gallery/5BFynxT

Terrible gender controls: https://imgur.com/gallery/HdFhJZE

Edit: added some imgur folders, some Google sites have a more complete collection

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] master5o1@lemmy.nz 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

7 Dimensional Gender Coordinates got me

[–] xigoi 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Those look like names of medicines tbh.

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago

The compressed installer for doom was about 2MB if you wanted to use that as a gender.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

My favourite is the "upload your genitals as jpeg"

[–] lemmingnosis@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

So simple. So dumb.

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 16 points 1 year ago

“Is your phone ringing y/n” is my absolute favourite, but they’re all so good!

[–] dan@upvote.au 7 points 1 year ago

Hahaha I hadn't seen the volume one before. I love it!

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Somewhat more controversially there was a recent attempt at “improving” gender input fields.

https://imgur.com/gallery/HdFhJZE

[–] harry315@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

to be fair, the first colour picker isn't too bad, it it?

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Zoidberg@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah pretty much, medical and dating information maybe. Anything else is just an invasion of privacy.

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That second catapulting volume is cool

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

There are some pretty good gamified ones for the phone number.

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I appreciate the imgur links and not direct images.

[–] Bunnylux@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I rarely laugh out loud and my coworkers are suspicious.

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I love those so much.

[–] whodatdair@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a terrible day to have eyes

[–] litchralee@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those volume controls are fucking incredible.

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

The creativity of the awfulness amuses and disturbs me.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Is it bad that I kind of like the rotary phone input?

[–] DogWater@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I swear I saw this guy posting his community's submissions for the worst UI/best UI jokes and this was one of them

[–] Zoidberg@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

And don't forget the mother of all bad interfaces game: http://userinyerface.com