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Michael PorterToday’s <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/UXFail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UXFail</a> : I’m ordering cheques for a bank account, online. The default text for the starting number has four digits. You are only allowed to use three. Of course, you don't find this out until *after* you have hit the “Next" button.If I am ever in line behind one of these web coders, I'm going to flick their ear, *hard*.

Michael PorterToday’s UI Fail: I’m playing with a glucometer and associated app. If you enter a note, you must click on two different “Done” buttons. If you click the wrong one first, the note isn’t saved.The obvious solution to this is to eliminate the button that appears when you are entering text.(Another gripe about this part of the app is that you can’t adjust the time on a note, another no-brainer)<a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/BadUI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BadUI</a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/UIFail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UIFail</a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/UX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UX</a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/UXFail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UXFail</a>

scyMastodon devs: "You know what would be cool? If you could follow people from the search results list with one click."me: "That helpfulness is greatly reduced if I don't even know _who_ to follow." 🙄(Also, of course none of these results contain the word "prokop".)<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/UX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UX</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/UXFail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UXFail</a>

joachimOk <a href="https://drupal.community/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mastodon</a> has started doing the javascript-refresh-that-vanishes-what-you-started-reading trick that twitter and facebook do and it is NOT OK. <a href="https://drupal.community/tags/UXfail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UXfail</a>

Peter MakholmDagens <a href="https://social.data.coop/tags/UXFail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UXFail</a>:Landevælger, hvor navnene på landene står med så dårlig kontrast at man reelt kun kan se flagene.

PositivDenken 🤯This Sea-to-Summit packsack to their Ultralight sleeping pad sports some remarkable design fail. On one end, you have access to the rolled up, orange pad, on the other end, it contains a grey pumpsack for super easy inflation. But now, take a guess which end contains what! Exactly, at the grey end you’ll find the pad and at the orange end you’ll find the pumpsack. Now if there just was a way to make it more intuitive!<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uxfail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uxfail</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#design</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/productDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#productDesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/designFail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#designFail</a>

mgiraldoi hadn't made the connection that Louie Mantia makes here that since macOS removed scrollbars in browsers (mimicking iOS), users no longer have a visual indication of where they are/how long/how much remains in a web page. websites started adding “reading progress bars” at the top of web pages, maybe to compensate for that. scrollbars were (are) awesome. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UXFail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UXFail</a><a href="https://lmnt.me/blog/rose-gold-tinted-liquid-glasses.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lmnt.me/blog/rose-gold-tinted-liquid-glasses.html</a>

Dr PenRANT! I have never used Slack. I just didnt need it. Yes Ive ran small tech teams to work on web or app dev, in HE contexts with talented capable students and real clients. Slack wasnt useful. Ive got 3 old workspaces never used. Was it easy to delete them? No. Did it accept fresh passwords? No. Did the email support actually read my email properly? No. Ive now sent a request to nuke everything asap, its my right (GDPR). Stop with this deactivate account bs.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/slack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#slack</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uxfail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uxfail</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gdpr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gdpr</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ux</a>

Natouille 🍷 🥃 🍾Devoir envoyer 8 documents à sa banque = devoir faire 8 fois clic sur "ajouter une pièce jointe" <a href="https://mastodon.tetaneutral.net/tags/UXFail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UXFail</a> 😑

Blank GregYouTube shoves Shorts into the middle of normal video results because they know nobody will view them if they’re in a separate tab or app.This is a classic dark pattern, also used to shove AI into everything.<a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/ux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ux</a> <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/uxfail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uxfail</a> <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/youtube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#youtube</a> <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/morningthoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#morningthoughts</a>

Thomas Svensson 🖖Someone at <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/HP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HP</a> needs a hard kick in the butt!The key for <>| that always been to the left of the Z-key, is now replaced by a wider Shift-key. And <>| moved to the L-key.The real crazy thing is how to actually type them:- FN + L = < - FN + AltGr + L = |But for > it has to be in this specific order: - Shift + FN + L = > That's because: FN + Left Shift = FN-Lock FN + Right Shift = Print ScreenThose ✅ this layout are for sure not affected by their own stupidity!<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/keyboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#keyboard</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/UXfail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UXfail</a> 🤬

artfulrobotWow somebody sat down, looked at this screen and thought, "Yep, that makes sense."...choose A or B? We'll explain why later. Choose. NOW!<a href="https://floss.social/tags/ux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ux</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/UXFail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UXFail</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/WebDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebDesign</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/webDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#webDev</a>(no, the blurred out text did not include the explanation - it just wasn't relevant to my point)

Mark GritterWhy is this job still up on the board and being sent to my email if it is a "test"? <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/uxfail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uxfail</a>

Peter DrakeI need to do a mail merge through my school account (which is gmail). Handily, they have a concise help page on how to do this:<a href="https://support.google.com/mail/answer/12921167" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://support.google.com/mail/answer/12921167</a>The problem is that the help page instructs me to click on an icon that doesn't exist.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#google</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/gmail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gmail</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/uxfail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uxfail</a>

Claudius LinkWTF preventing copy and paste in a password field is bad. But have you ever encountered copy and paste disabled everywhere 😲? (Actually, everywhere apart from password fields)Meet <a href="https://scrum-master.org/en" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://scrum-master.org/en</a> They also seem to disable the context menu in general 🤮 <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/UXFail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UXFail</a>

richThings That Shouldn't Be a Thing in 2025:<rant> Still I find the majority of online retailers list comparison or filter data in its raw (and, badly ordered) format, without running a simple SQL CASE WHEN or using FLOOR for binning. Crazy. <end rant> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/uxfail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uxfail</a>

Chad Schultz<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/UXFail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UXFail</a> of the day: BestBuy gave me a slew of options for how to sign in. I chose to receive a code in my email. Once I put in the code, it wanted to verify that I was REALLY who I said I was, since it didn't recognize the browser... ...so it sent another code to my email. 🤦

Peter DrakeI'm looking at a student's assignment in Google Classroom. At the top, it is reported as "missing". Right underneath that, I can see the non-empty document that they handed in.I won't go so far as to say an LLM only has one job, but consistently reporting whether something was handed in or not seems pretty basic.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GoogleClassroom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GoogleClassroom</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UXFail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UXFail</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/teaching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#teaching</a>

The Seven Voyages Of SteveToday I had to download the user manual for a hire car to find out how to get the fecking thing into gear. <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/uxfail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uxfail</a>

PAUL!!!In der Mensa der <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/UniPotsdam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UniPotsdam</a> gibt es am Ausgang zwei Taster. Einer öffnet die Tür, durch die man gehen möchte. Der andere schaltet in der ganzen Mensa das Licht aus.<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/UXFail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UXFail</a>

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