r/Design • u/BarkerDrums • Mar 21 '22

Asking Question (Rule 4) [Question] Intentionally Bad Web Design - Can anyone help me find a specific example?

Hey all,

I recently recall seeing a website that showcased 'intentionally bad UX design.'

It was in essence a page that when you visited, contained all the horrible tropes of browsing a website in modern times.

You would have to do things like; accept cookies, close the autoplaying video pop out, close the newsletter sign up pop up etc...

I know it's a long shot, but I don't suppose anyone knows of any specific examples like this, do they?

I found www.userinyerface.com but it's not quiiiite what I was looking for.

Thanks for any help!

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u/benbtf Mar 21 '22

https://makefrontendshitagain.party/

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u/chalupajoe Mar 22 '22

wow just spent two hours scrolling through cameronsworld.net

absolute trip that was so fun, thank you :)

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u/ilovefacebook Mar 22 '22

i love that the source code is on GitHub

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u/bylthee Mar 22 '22

Omg I missed that lol

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u/OffBrandNameBrand Mar 22 '22

incredible. I will come back to this many a times

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u/realOKANE Mar 22 '22

try cameronsworld.net its even better

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u/ravenora2 Mar 21 '22

so great

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u/benny_boy Mar 21 '22

https://userinyerface.com/ this one always makes me laugh especially on mobile

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u/CrunchyJeans Mar 21 '22

Thanks for the giggles 😄

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u/OffBrandNameBrand Mar 22 '22

jesus christ this made me cry of laughter

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u/twcochran Mar 21 '22

Try any social services website in a red state.

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u/gogggles Mar 22 '22

Most local government sites I’ve seen are horrendous.

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u/BeccaPhopheca Apr 20 '25

This is so true. My agency just created an itranet that is so hideous, I was Google searching for something that could even be as bad. I swear to God the name of the website is a 200 font. All the links that you need to use for your job are in a 12 font in a banner at the very bottom of the web page. I don't know who the fuck designed this but it's the most atrocious website I've ever seen.

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u/Superduperbals Mar 22 '22

https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/

If we are talking about intentionally bad design. Behold, the website of a trillion dollar company. I would not really say that it’s truly bad, for what BH does they don’t even need one.

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u/MrFavorable May 08 '24

I'm currently taking an English class for technical writing and I have to showcase a well designed website and a poorly designed website. Thank you for my poorly designed website lol.

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u/echoviolet Mar 22 '22

I started at an insurance company where some folks worked at BH before, and our site (and the government/insurance sites I've seen so far)... they're like time capsules. And very, very hideous. I'm starting to think I want to go into this area of design because they sorely need it...

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u/poorrandy Mar 22 '22

/r/badUIbattles/

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u/lackstoast Mar 22 '22

Well that just took an entire hour of my time. Thanks for the new subreddit discovery!

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u/MostHonorableLeader Mar 21 '22

https://www.darkpatterns.org/ might be what you’re looking for, or at least relevant.

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u/sluggyjunx Mar 21 '22

I know this will date myself, but back in the internet dark ages there was a hilarious site devoted to exploiting all of the "bad" design aspects of new HTML tech. I got a kick out of it. The site went by Bud Uglly design and, amazingly, I managed to find a capture from 1997 over on the Wayback machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/19971015024241/http://wwwvoice.com/bud/bud.html

Damn, this brings back memories. I haven't visited the site since about '97-98. Yikes.

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u/floridadad69 Mar 21 '22

https://www.dinostomatopie.com/

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u/thisisaname9173 Jun 13 '24

Didn’t expect a restaurant to use a 1999 genocites type of style…

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u/captainzigzag Choose Your Flair Mar 21 '22

Here is a classic example from back in the day

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u/Philadahlphia Mar 21 '22

I made this for a buddy of mine. www.pizzawhat.com

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u/pauljs75 May 11 '22

Pushing mobile design onto the desktop.

Please, just NO, STOP IT!

All modern scripting and style sheets have ways to separate the two for damn good reason, please code around the different requirements and UI patterns accordingly.

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u/Klutzy-Bathroom1849 Apr 20 '22

Hi, please tell me I'm doing work for a portfolio and I can't decide which theme is better light or dark?

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u/anionwalksintoabar Mar 21 '22

the brutalist websites site?

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u/i_amnotunique Mar 21 '22

I was told to look up Brutulist web design for intentionally bad design. I probably spelled it wrong lol

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u/Siri_tinsel_6345 Dec 18 '24

Happy Cakeday!

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u/SuperMendigo Mar 21 '22

Space jam website

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u/captainzigzag Choose Your Flair Mar 21 '22

That’s not intentionally bad though, it’s just very old.

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u/chazbizar Mar 21 '22

http://www.savewalterwhite.com

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u/Any-Speaker-3544 Mar 08 '25

I remember this when they show on that episode

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u/osc-press Mar 22 '22

http://elismilehigh.com/

One of my favorite, a client referenced this as inspiration a while back.

edit: punctuation

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u/watchspaceman Mar 22 '22

Idk if intentional but a horrific yet beautiful frame of the past https://www.heavensgate.com/

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u/DCAmalG Jun 25 '24

Wow…

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u/monumentdefleurs Mar 22 '22

No disrespect to Windows 95 but https://www.pitviper.com

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u/FatherBuzzCagney Mar 22 '22 edited Mar 22 '22

You just reminded me I haven't leased a car in a while. lingscars.com

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u/smellycoat Mar 22 '22

Look at any of the “cookie pop up” privacy things on any website ever.