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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
136 0 ReplyHi, 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
53 0 ReplyI 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.
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7 Dimensional Gender Coordinates got me
38 0 ReplyPoe’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.
22 0 ReplyThose look like names of medicines tbh.
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The compressed installer for doom was about 2MB if you wanted to use that as a gender.
15 0 ReplyMy favourite is the "upload your genitals as jpeg"
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So simple. So dumb.
20 0 Reply“Is your phone ringing y/n” is my absolute favourite, but they’re all so good!
16 0 ReplySomewhat more controversially there was a recent attempt at “improving” gender input fields.
8 0 Replyto be fair, the first colour picker isn't too bad, it it?
4 0 ReplyMy 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.
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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.
2 0 ReplyYeah pretty much, medical and dating information maybe. Anything else is just an invasion of privacy.
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Hahaha I hadn't seen the volume one before. I love it!
7 0 ReplyI rarely laugh out loud and my coworkers are suspicious.
6 0 ReplyIt’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.
12 0 ReplyThat 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.
7 0 ReplyFound 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.
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That second catapulting volume is cool
6 0 ReplyThere are some pretty good gamified ones for the phone number.
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I appreciate the imgur links and not direct images.
5 0 ReplyWhat a terrible day to have eyes
5 0 ReplyThank you for reminding me of this: https://youtube.com/shorts/XqNrO33bxmw
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I love those so much.
4 0 ReplyThose volume controls are fucking incredible.
4 0 ReplyThe creativity of the awfulness amuses and disturbs me.
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twitch
3 0 ReplyIs it bad that I kind of like the rotary phone input?
3 0 ReplyAnd don't forget the mother of all bad interfaces game: http://userinyerface.com
2 0 ReplyI swear I saw this guy posting his community's submissions for the worst UI/best UI jokes and this was one of them
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