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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

What a terrible day to have eyes

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Thank you for reminding me of this: https://youtube.com/shorts/XqNrO33bxmw

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7 Dimensional Gender Coordinates got me

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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”

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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.

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

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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.

So simple. So dumb.

And don’t forget the mother of all bad interfaces game: http://userinyerface.com

Hahaha I hadn’t seen the volume one before. I love it!

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Somewhat more controversially there was a recent attempt at “improving” gender input fields.

https://imgur.com/gallery/HdFhJZE

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to be fair, the first colour picker isn’t too bad, it it?

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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.

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Yeah pretty much, medical and dating information maybe. Anything else is just an invasion of privacy.

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I rarely laugh out loud and my coworkers are suspicious.

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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.

Hang on… would that work?

An infinite, non repeating sequence of digits?

Yeah, that would contain all possible sequences of arbitrary length.

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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.

Those volume controls are fucking incredible.

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The creativity of the awfulness amuses and disturbs me.

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I appreciate the imgur links and not direct images.

twitch

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I love those so much.

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Is it bad that I kind of like the rotary phone input?

That second catapulting volume is cool

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There are some pretty good gamified ones for the phone number.

“Is your phone ringing y/n” is my absolute favourite, but they’re all so good!

I 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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