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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
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.
7 Dimensional Gender Coordinates got me
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.
The compressed installer for doom was about 2MB if you wanted to use that as a gender.
My favourite is the "upload your genitals as jpeg"
So simple. So dumb.
“Is your phone ringing y/n” is my absolute favourite, but they’re all so good!
Hahaha I hadn't seen the volume one before. I love it!
Somewhat more controversially there was a recent attempt at “improving” gender input fields.
https://imgur.com/gallery/HdFhJZE
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.
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.
Yeah pretty much, medical and dating information maybe. Anything else is just an invasion of privacy.
That second catapulting volume is cool
There are some pretty good gamified ones for the phone number.
I appreciate the imgur links and not direct images.
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.
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.
What a terrible day to have eyes
Thank you for reminding me of this: https://youtube.com/shorts/XqNrO33bxmw
I love those so much.
twitch
Is it bad that I kind of like the rotary phone input?
Those volume controls are fucking incredible.
The creativity of the awfulness amuses and disturbs me.
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