Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml The Picard Maneuver @lemmy.world 9 mo. ago

Conveniently enter your phone number with a single input

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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
- 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
  
  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.
- 7 Dimensional Gender Coordinates got me
  
  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.
  
  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"
- So simple. So dumb.
- “Is your phone ringing y/n” is my absolute favourite, but they’re all so good!
- Somewhat more controversially there was a recent attempt at “improving” gender input fields.
  
  https://imgur.com/gallery/HdFhJZE
  
  to be fair, the first colour picker isn't too bad, it it?
  
  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.
- Hahaha I hadn't seen the volume one before. I love it!
- That second catapulting volume is cool
  
  There are some pretty good gamified ones for the phone number.
- I appreciate the imgur links and not direct images.
- I rarely laugh out loud and my coworkers are suspicious.
  
  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.
- twitch
- I love those so much.
- What a terrible day to have eyes
  
  Thank you for reminding me of this: https://youtube.com/shorts/XqNrO33bxmw
- Is it bad that I kind of like the rotary phone input?
- Those volume controls are fucking incredible.
  
  The creativity of the awfulness amuses and disturbs me.
- I swear I saw this guy posting his community's submissions for the worst UI/best UI jokes and this was one of them
- And don't forget the mother of all bad interfaces game: http://userinyerface.com
Is there a Lemmy version of UI battles?
- One of the mods posted a link https://programming.dev/comment/7679900
Great idea, they just requested one minor change: Make the slider circular so users can "dial" the number like everyone is used to.
- There is a rotary phone one. https://i.imgur.com/P2zIXIh.gifv
  
  Prevent people under 25 from using your form with this one weird trick.
2-Factor authentication

Click Continue when your authenticator app shows a code with two leading zeroes.
No leading zeroes :(
Could you not repost memes on the same instances two hours after the first person? Just save it and wait at least a week.
- If 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.
So it begins...
Power Bi has entered the chat
Reminds 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!
This hits too close to home.

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