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Bad UX World Cup 2025
- shellwizard 11mo agoNo mention of Spotify's terrible UX in mobile devices?
- monooso 11mo agoIt's a competition, not a teardown of in-the-wild bad UX. From the website: > Build a date picker with bad UX (the worse, the better)
- bunher 11mo agoIs there a place where one can post examples of in-the-wild bad UX? Such as a choice of „yes“ and „later“ without the option of „No, never“
- Y-bar 11mo agoI used to frequent interface Hall Of Shame a long time ago, unfortunately no longer active. http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/ http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/
- andrepd 11mo agoWow, I spent entirely too much time looking at that. What does it mean if many of these entries are above-average in today's UI landscape? x)
- darknavi 11mo agoSomething extra hilarious about the UX of the website causing me to mis-click. I tried to watch the YouTube video but the UX popped in and caused me to click on some other random link.
- baduiux 11mo agoI think as long as it is a fun project (and not for real world applications) such experimental design is just fine. But yeah misclicking due to popups or other stuff is always annoying.
- oatsandsugar 11mo agoThe "choose your date by selecting a substring of pi" is absolutely incredible.
- infogulch 11mo agoI couldn't find my birthday in the first 10 or so pages, so I clicked "Give up" and searched the page for it. Said my pi index was in the 100,000s. Went back to the ui to select it manually and gave up after clicking fast for minutes and I hadn't even hit index 50,000.
- spacechild1 11mo agoHow do they prove that it is indeed possible to select any date? :)
- dmd 11mo agoBy search, since it's trivial to find any 8 digit string in the already-known digits of pi - in fact all 100 million combinations appear within the first ~2 billion digits.
- sltkr 11mo agoBut the site only supports up to ~10 million digits! This seems like serious defect. How am I supposed to select dates before 01/01/1970 or after 31/12/2069?
- handoflixue 11mo agoIf you were born after 31/12/2069, I dare say you're the time traveler, so you can just go back in time and fix the UX yourself.
- Pooge 11mo agoWhat if it's the date I plan to marry my AI love companion?
- mberning 11mo agoThe federal “eJuror” website is by far one of the worst websites in existence.
- psunavy03 11mo agoI haven't used the eJuror site personally, but having served 20 years active and reserve Navy, that is but the tip of the iceberg of shittily-implemented Federal government websites. The "new and improved" cloud portal for doing Navy performance evaluations turned into such an unadulterated shitshow that everyone went back to the old system. A Visual Basic application bolted on top of an MS Access database . . . that originally was someone's side project in 1998.
- Foobar8568 11mo agoAnything built with Microsoft Power Apps.
- StableAlkyne 11mo agoIt boggles the mind that they built a "low code" interface to designing websites, with the express purpose of making it easy to use... ..and then used Excel formulas of all things as the basis for its scripting language. It's as if they wanted these things to be as clunky and spaghettified as possible.
- psunavy03 11mo agoAt some point, doing things the "low code/no code" way turns out to be more painful than just . . . writing code.
- dylan604 11mo agofor those that can write code. if you can't write code, the more painful way is just the way
- jimbokun 11mo agoA lot of those people end up writing code without realizing they’re writing code.
- dylan604 11mo agoI don't know the MS offering, but places like Wix/Square or using WordPress definitely do not end up with the user writing code.
- Sohcahtoa82 11mo agoInstead, you end up installing an endless list of plugins that are sometimes so poorly written that I've decided to call WordPress "RCE-as-a-Service".
- stronglikedan 11mo agoSince it's bad UX, they should deliver the trophy as an NFT. Also in the spirit of bad UX, clicking the winning link (Dalia) just reloads the current page, lol.
- busymom0 11mo ago> "Good question! It is a brilliant and culturally resonant concept!" - ChatGPT This testimonial killed me because it's something ChatGPT will totally actually say
- mNovak 11mo agoThe chatGPT endorsement is /chefs kiss/
- matsemann 11mo agoRelated: The worst volume control UI in the world https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27819384 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27819384
- rcpt 11mo agoIf I'm reading correctly this "world cup" is just a rip off of that thread. Pretty lame of them not to cite it.
- nikanj 11mo agoCan I nominate every single award flight finder from every airline? It's almost as if they want you to get frustrated and give up on trying to book your free flight
- zahlman 11mo agoI appreciate that the image https://badux.lol/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/ZIty0Vhmkm0nD-fBKJrTZQ/badux:CleanShot2025-10-14at14.13.022x.png/public https://badux.lol/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/ZIty0Vhmkm0nD-fBKJrT... is being animated with CSS. In fact, the page doesn't appear to require JavaScript for anything. Thumbs up.
- OuterVale 11mo agoIt uses SVG filters! You can read about the effect here: https://henry.codes/writing/how-to-distort-text-with-svg/ https://henry.codes/writing/how-to-distort-text-with-svg/
- kylecazar 11mo agoIn the world champion date picker, I had to swipe exactly twice to get to my birthday. Once for the month and once for the year. The default day was right. I had to do it several times again to confirm this was just absolutely absurd luck.
- luoc 11mo agoToo lazy to build it: Physically accurate bird view of the solar system at year zero of <INSTERT CALENDAR>. Grab whatever object with your mouse and move until reaching the desired point in time. Like grab Pluto to get somewhat near today, finetune with our Moon.
- jandrese 11mo agoOne of the date pickers has an overhead shot of Earth's orbit and you have to wind the planet back to get to the date.
- temporallobe 11mo agoReminds me of a video on The Onion where macbooks were using a single giant click-wheel as the sole input device.
- hrudham 11mo agoThere is an easter egg in the date picker on April 25th.
- ainiriand 11mo agoFirst date I chose by chance!
- dostick 11mo agoThat has nothing to do with actual bad UX, those are made up UX… jokes? pranks? I don’t know how to call it. But it shows a bigger problem: the generation of designers grew up on abhorrent design that Figma normalised. They don’t know what bad is, they won’t recognise bad. Only outrageous made-up UX “pranks” are bad to them. How about showing an actual bad UX of Figma on their podcast? Lowering the plank towards a fantasy bad UX makes any UX above it good.