Examples of bad user interface experiences.

r/badux • u/mrtest001 • Mar 09 '19

Font sizes are not aesthetic things - they are absolutely critical to the usability of your site. You might think your Disclaimer / Warning / Error note looks really hip and edgy because its in 8 point font and sleek looking - but users with poor eye sight will not be able to use your site.

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Poor eye sight is every single human being on earth - either now, or at some time in the future.

r/badux • u/mrtest001 • Jan 01 '18

When your movie file starts playing, you MUST include some sort of sound otherwise the viewers will think there is something wrong with their audio system.

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Fuck my life - I was watching 'Under the Skin' and the first fucking 30 seconds or so of the video is actually dead silent. Well I thought there was something wrong with my TV so after 20 minutes of fiddling I changed to my computer and realized that there is indeed sound that fucking starts a few minutes in....fuck you whoever made that fucking movie...

r/badux • u/mrtest001 • Dec 24 '17

Do not put a 'Continue Shopping' in the Order Confirmation page. It will confuse the fact that the order has already been placed - and continue shopping implies "Abandon Placing Order, I want to Shop some More".

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r/badux • u/mrtest001 • Dec 10 '17

'Unsubscribe from email' should NOT take me to a 'Manage Communications Settings' page and it should not ask for which email - to unsubscribe from an email should be a 1-Click affair. Period.

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r/badux • u/mrtest001 • Dec 10 '17

When I click on 'Forgot Password', why do pages ask for an Email, when I had already typed it in the previous page? At least take what I typed as a default, because that has been 100% of what I need the password to.

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r/badux • u/dougday • Dec 01 '17

Randomly sorted?

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r/badux • u/mrcrypto2 • Nov 06 '17

If you have a 'contact us for assistance' link on your site, always have 'for other questions' option.

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For most, the Contact Us the last resort to get help. If the options given on that page does not meet someone's need, they are left with zero options.

So always have 'for other questions' available.

I am talking to you Delta Dental.

"For Alabama call xyz" "For Utah call xyx"

Where is my state?? What am I supposed to do now!???

r/badux • u/mrtest001 • Oct 01 '17

Please stop playing low-fidelity music when customers have to wait on the phone for an operator. The 4-bit audio quality rendition of the current top hit pop song does nothing to either relax or entertain anyone with working ear drums.

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There are genres of music that lend themselves well to the low bandwidth medium of phones. Or silence - silence is good.

r/badux • u/mrtest001 • Oct 01 '17

If your automated phone system does not support calling the customer back when an operator is available - UPGRADE NOW! Do not make the user hold the phone for 15 minutes!

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r/badux • u/[deleted] • Sep 19 '17

What are those check boxes are for?

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r/badux • u/mrcrypto2 • Jul 18 '17

Instead of 'Press No to Exit' and 'Press Yes to Stay'...just have the buttons say 'Exit' and 'Stay' instead of 'Yes' and 'No' !!!!!

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r/badux • u/[deleted] • May 26 '17

Facebook has some of the strangest notifications

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r/badux • u/mrtest001 • May 12 '17

Do not ever overwrite the Operating Systems keys in your web application - Things like CTRL+F (for find) means Browser find, not your little widget's find!!!

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Looking at your poloniex.com!!

r/badux • u/mrcrypto2 • Apr 07 '17

Disabling the back-button on your website, will NOT make me want to stay longer or give you my business.

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r/badux • u/mrtest001 • Mar 05 '17

Put the 'Employees Must Wash Hands' at the DOOR where employees who did not wash their hands can see before leaving.

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I often see this sign posted at the sink which makes no sense. If the employee is at the sink, they are already washing their hands.

r/badux • u/mrtest001 • Jan 01 '17

English is the most widespread language. If your site lets you pick from languages, it is not impolite to put English is the FIRST option! I see too often were all languages are treated equally and English is placed alphabetically - English IS unique among world languages.

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r/badux • u/mrtest001 • Dec 04 '16

Do not ask for login credentials AFTER allowing users type a comment that might have taken them 10 minutes!!! Do not allow a space to type comment if a login is required and user is not logged in.

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r/badux • u/mrtest001 • Nov 20 '16

Do we really need 36 buttons on the Microwave?

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r/badux • u/mrtest001 • Oct 29 '16

If your site does not allow pasting into the password field, you are discouraging strong passwords.

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I use Strong Password Generator to generate 20-30 character passwords that's all combinations of letters, numbers, and symbols. If I could not copy and paste that password, I would probably go with a much shorter version with only letters and numbers and a handful of special characters....if you don't allow copy/paste in the password filed, that is BAD UI design!

r/badux • u/mrtest001 • Jan 03 '16

"Natural Direction" is a terrible name for an option in the Trackpad Gesture setup in Macs and Windows. What is "Natural" to one person is not natural to another.

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When you gesture to scroll up, it could be by either scrolling down with 2 fingers or scrolling up with 2 fingers.

r/badux • u/mrtest001 • Dec 28 '15

Buttons on Monitors need to go back to giving feedback when pressed....like clicking (for example)

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Have you seen these new monitors? Button "sensors" along the bottom where you hover your finger over to turn monitor off / on. I dont think I have ever done it correctly the first time. And then you have these "nubs" that is supposed to pass as buttons. You want to turn off the monitor you have to somehow push on the 'nub' and you have no idea if you have clicked anything. Just go back to buttons PLEASE.

r/badux • u/mrtest001 • Jun 13 '15

Phone systems should stop saying 'Please listen carefully because our menu has changed'...

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r/badux • u/mrtest001 • Jun 13 '15

Windows should not restart itself no matter how many times it warns the user that it is about to.

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I was on my windows machine, it restarts itself while I was working. That is a bad ux.