#antagonistic design

[goblincow]

I watched @monsterfactoryfanfic's fantastic new video on Mörk Borg and it inspired me, so I had to write up my thoughts:

GREEN MILK | #002 | mörk borg & antagonistic design | Goblincow

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[la-principessa-nuova]

The YouTube Apple TV app is so bad it’s embarrassing. Like if I was YouTube, I would just delete it to not reflect poorly on me. Or at least ask an intern to spend a day fixing it.

Some examples of issues:

- Turning off autoplay just makes the timer go away and videos autoplay immediately instead

- When connecting a mobile device, autoplay settings are ignored and there is a countdown with two buttons on the phone to play the next video or stop. Both buttons play the next video.

- The UI does not use any of the system conventions for hiding and showing UI and instead uses an arcane system of swipes where swiping in a direction sometimes does things and sometimes does other things and you need to try it to find out, and if it’s in the mode where swiping seeks through the video instead of choosing buttons you need to hit back to hide the UI, otherwise you swipe up and hitting back closes the video.

- If a link appears on screen, you lose the ability to access the UI, so you cannot skip back near the end of a video, like the video, read the comments, subscribe, or anything once the in video links popup appears.

- Sometimes when I open the mobile app while watching on the TV it pops up to connect my phone to the TV. Sometimes it doesn’t. If a video is playing on the TV and there was a video I had paused on my phone from hours or even days ago, it replaces the video on the TV with the paused video and starts playing it immediately. Welp, so much for wanting to comment on this video.

- Changing the video quality sometimes resets the playback speed.

- Swiping between UI elements is really finicky and I often miss. I always laugh because someone I watch always says “You can’t miss the like and subscribe buttons” and then as he was saying that I literally missed the like button and disliked the video by accident.

- Sometimes the UI gets really laggy and I need to stop and let it process queued up directional swipes for a bit.

And that’s just the bugs. The design is just as bad. Like why, when I want to skip back 10 seconds or check how far through the video, does it need to dim the entire screen so I can’t see the video at all and take up half the screen just to show 75% of a row of thumbnails for suggested videos beneath with a fake EQ visualizer over the thumbnail for the current video moving around and drawing attention (it’s definitely fake because it doesn’t stop when you pause the video).

[invitedrhino683]

bad bench

i hate this bench already