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
137 0 ReplyHi, I'm the creator of /r/baduibattles, and one of the mods of [email protected] if anyome here would like to submit terrible UI here
53 1 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 1 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 ReplyThe compressed installer for doom was about 2MB if you wanted to use that as a gender.
15 1 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 ReplyHahaha I hadn't seen the volume one before. I love it!
7 0 ReplySomewhat more controversially there was a recent attempt at “improving” gender input fields.
8 1 Replyto be fair, the first colour picker isn't too bad, it it?
4 0 ReplyWhat 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.
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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 rarely laugh out loud and my coworkers are suspicious.
7 2 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.
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I appreciate the imgur links and not direct images.
5 0 Replytwitch
4 0 ReplyWhat a terrible day to have eyes
6 2 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 1 ReplyThe creativity of the awfulness amuses and disturbs me.
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Is 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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Is there a Lemmy version of UI battles?
33 0 ReplyOne of the mods posted a link https://programming.dev/comment/7679900
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Great idea, they just requested one minor change: Make the slider circular so users can "dial" the number like everyone is used to.
25 0 ReplyThere is a rotary phone one. https://i.imgur.com/P2zIXIh.gifv
16 0 ReplyPrevent people under 25 from using your form with this one weird trick.
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No leading zeroes :(
11 0 Reply2-Factor authentication
Click Continue when your authenticator app shows a code with two leading zeroes.
11 0 ReplyCould you not repost memes on the same instances two hours after the first person? Just save it and wait at least a week.
15 5 ReplyIf I had seen it posted, I would have held off. I'm not subbed to every community on this instance if you saw it somewhere else.
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Power Bi has entered the chat
5 0 ReplySo it begins...
5 0 ReplyReminds me of birthday fields with manual drop downs. It is always faster to just type, especially for the month number which in the custom dropdowns often can't be typed with the keyboard.
Plus there are native HTML date pickers now. Please!
3 0 ReplyThis hits too close to home.
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