Peak UI Design

Ask your doctor if Moctopril™ is right for you!

Jocktober

Jocktober is a workout month. Gotta get fit for my costume.

This is disgusting. Who enters dates in month/day/year order?

That’s just adding salt to the would
How do you see that and this is your reaction?
- Because I'm not used to entering dates in month/day/year order.

Decay is my favourite month

I’ll take “le tits now” for 300, Trebek _HEH _HEH

j'october

Tu as october
- Il elle on a october

I was born in _arch, btw.

Wake me up when Septempril ends

Sounds like a medicine I shouldn't take before asking my doctor if it's right for me.
Like my father's come and past, 1900 years has gone so fast!

Hmm. A bit redundant.

[ j ] [ uly ] [ y ]

Shoulda just been [ ul ].

The blank options solve that
- I'm not saying it doesn't work. I'm saying it's not good.
  Almost perfect. 0/10

Best CAPTCHA ever!

I, too, was born in Septulyber.

I use febr a rch btw

You know about neo-pronouns, get ready for neo-months

I unironically love this. Of course it isn't practical in the least, but I love it.

Febroctobus

Managust, the manliest of months.

febroctorch has the best weather in Argentina on Tuesdays

This is a repost from last japril.

It's basically the UI equivalent of this:

Yes, it's a fully-functional date picker and also deviously, wildly, uncomfortably outside of aesthetic norms. Also, there's a lots of fun, invalid combinations of input outside of the usual "February 30th" shenanigans.

Why yes, that's my birthday: the 32nd of Septunepril. What's the problem?

Decoctorch sounds kind of cool though. Anyone up for some calendar reform?

Napoleon intensifies
God, always. Nothing about our current calendar is working for me.

Novemy showers bring Septanugust flowers.

At least that's what my grandma would say.

Finally I can input my birthday of Jempril 0 without having to use a keyboard!

at least no bot will solve this

Funny month names are all well and good, but the only ones you can actually spell here are:

January, March, May, September, November, and December.

Otherwise, it's

Febranuary, Japril, Juney, Julyber, Maugust, and Moctober

I think you can use the white space so it's "[ ]april"
Kinda true. If the whitespace from the top row doesn't get removed, you are left with "febr uary".
- With white space you can make every month
It's 12, looks good to me.

What, you werent born on Mapril 0, 1901?

The zeroth of March is not uncommonly used, to mean the last of February whether it's the 28th or 29th

Joctopril, novel ACE inhibitor, new and improved!

I saw decapril, thought the exact same thing

They should have included an option for BC and AD.

I understand that bad ui is a fun meme and all, but how did this one even cross their mind as an idea for a bad UI? This is a new level of convoluted I would not have even considered.

My guess: someone messed up trying to split an array and split a string from it and hilarity ensued.
- It's too unregular and too good to be a coincidence. Unless they threw an algorithm on it that was intended for whatever

Genuine Question:

if you could split the month names into 3, how would you split them to maximise their choice overlap?

"em" is a good overlap for nov/sept/dec
"uar" is good for jan/febr

I assume the post is the maximum. I wonder if there is an algorithm for that
- hierarchical letter clustering would be my guess, or graph-based clustering using ngrams of 2-4 as nodes and maximising for connections.
  Or using an optimized Regex and printing out the DFA?
  Edit: Quick N-gram analysis (min=3, max=num letters in that month)
  
  This gives the following 9 ngram frequencies greater than 1:
  
  ary uar uary emb embe ember mbe mber ber 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 4
  As you can see two longest most common motifs are "em-ber" and "uar-y"
  Using this I propose the following graph

"Lousy Smarch Weather"

'Do Not Touch -Willie'

"Hey, good advice!"

My wife and I always wanted a joctober baby...

This is beautiful. Especially if it filters the available selections based on what is selected in the previous column.

I sure hope that 190 slider is also logarithmic

Joctober and Novemy sound fun!

Munepril babies always end up junkies and deculyuary babies as priests

Every single one so far.

Captchas are really getting out of hand.

Why yes I am a Jaber baby how did you know

m'ugust

I love the month of Jay

deculyugust

M arch btw

Febrauary?

"Feb"+""+"uary"
- For that matter, August has to use a blank in the first position as well

🎶Tell my girl I will be gone by Septuneugust🎶

disappointed that july is not split into j/ul/y

We can clearly see that this design is silly, because it allows for so many invalid states. Yet when we represent some type, let's say in Java, were so often forced to do this exact same thing. Have variables in a container of which only a certain combination is valid. And then have at most a comment saying "this number is only valid if X is also set" or "if the validity boolean is true". Luckily Java finally has some ability for the so-called sum types now, just like Haskell's data types or Rust's enum types. Imo any language should have this.

Having data dependent on each other in a type means that either you have redundant data (so one of the fields should be computed) or that your container tries to be too generic (you should in this case prefer an 'Apple' class over a 'Fruit' class with an enum field 'Type')

any

MOCTOUARY

septuneuary

https://programming.dev/c/bad_ui_battles

Yeah baby I'm a scorpanceitarius

this is how my apps look when I try optimising them, just to gut them of all its usability because 'why have an array of values if I can reuse this string or integer' like a fucking idiot

What happens if you accidentally click something in the third box for July?

Edit: nm, I see the blanks as the first option

Julyuary

day 0

Why is the first part of October in the second box?

Now I want to see an infographic about the common parts of each of the months

febr//uary skips the second box, so I think they aimed to have an equal number of options in each column.
- That's dumb... Why not separate both in 3, o-cto-ber and fe-bru-ary? This is bad, but in ways I find unacceptable.