Bad website user interfaces are perhaps the worst part of the internet: spammy pop-ups designed to trick you, dark patterns that are intentionally misleading, and just plain obtuse design decisions that make filling out a form virtual hell.
But don’t take my word for it: let “User Inyerface”, a web app from design firm Bagaar, show you in an intentionally nightmarish take that tries to build the single worst online form of all time. And boy, it is infuriating.
This made me want to quit computers and live in a forest far away from everything even remotely related to technology.
The new methodologies were supposed to fix the issues of the 90s, but have only served to kill those problems and introduce new ones. Gone is the blink tag/marquee and in it’s place, came whole page modals with annoying ads. 1 step forward, 2 steps back….
This takes me back to the early days of the web and when pages started getting more advanced, plus the early days of Adobe Flash. This site used to highlight sites with bad design: http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/
Your right, things haven’t improved.
8:16…I actually loved the captcha in step 4 and thought they could have made this MUCH worse. I just kept waiting for the “sorry, your form could not be send, please try again later” or “timeout expired”
I got under 6 mins, but wow… I got caught on the captcha five or six times before I noticed the [spoiler].
This needs to be a mandatory study aid for web/UI/UX designers and marketing folks.
@avgalen: Good point. Nothing had to be done over, so despite it’s intentional awfulness, it wasn’t the most frustrating interface I’ve used. I guess they didn’t actually want it to be too frustrating.
The book “GUI Bloopers 2.0: Common User Interface Design Don’ts and Dos” should be mandatory reading before any programmer is allowed to touch UI code.