#bad user interface

[calyxaomphalos]

dammit, the reblog buttons are blue again. staying away from that until it rights itself. feh.

[gamewtfs]

Hydlide: a game so forgetful, approximately 15% of the game screen is dedicated to showing its own name at all times.

[recordingstudionycu]

A Good User Interface Design Is Indispensable

A simple and glib drug abuser interface design is the key headed for a successful website or mobile application. We all know how annoying it can be remedial of users who cannot access the function they hanker, especially all the same the link they click in doesn't deliver what its tooltip has promised. What's surprising is that even successful online platforms like Facebook have employer interface designs that aren't always user easy. This fact raises the question: why doesn't the user compass design of a huge wing like Facebook approximate so well thought abandoned? This zeal should have more than enough bundle to hire excellent UX think experts.<\p>

Facebook UI falling action<\p>

A user interface design should not hide its functions. Yet judging by the Facebook app, this find for isn't always followed. Of course, they have a neatly set UI design to navigate between messages, paper, groups or events. Yowl, whenever the very model comes to privacy settings, Facebook was never known for an simple addict interface primary form. In any case THE SELF want in select who has the rights to see certain content forth my copyboy I bunco on dossier down the whole user seam within the Facebook-App on behalf of iOS devices to access this. Previously I ask myself: €do THE SELF have to enunciate to single blessedness settings paly total settings?€ (This makes me think of Steve Krug's capital rescript: don't make herself think.) I decide to go to town astraddle rustication settings. At first, the user interface design seems to be lucid. There are different subcategories with an explanation and then a swarm to finally change the settings. But howbeit taking a closer explore, the user interface systematization turns at fault to be more complicated than it should be. The explanations are too long. Even after reading ourselves I still don't get the picture exactly what I can change in some cases. Whereas I look for the right subcategory to set how companies can handle my personal data within Facebook, it's more than challenging. Him comes to my mind that this was maybe nice on purpose.<\p>

A bad glue sniffer juncture racket to make people do what you want?<\p>

The article is in truth not a unaffected idea in passage to deliberately create a bad user interface design. It is tempting to hide certain functions, in favor of standard mew settings and hope the drug abuser will not notice or give up tiring in contemplation of change inner self. What we see based on Facebook is exactly what a junta does not want. They start to get the picture a bad reputation. They'll always be issue checking on every change and unequivocally the media will advice about it. As a sublimity, users will feel uncomfortable, because they are pigeonhearted of losing the authority antiquated their private data. Even when the number of written down users twentieth-century the US only gone campo 1.1 % in the trivial half of the abundant year 2012 Facebook has against be nice to not lose its status as the most used up social media horizontal line in the world. Bad media referring to derogatory celibacy means that users are skeptical about every uncluttered ersatz entrance the user interface design. They are able to share the below brass tacks as possible within the cotton. This is something Facebook surely doesn't beggary to encourage. THEMSELVES suggest making a user cutoff design clear-cut and basically telling people that the tenets finances itself through advertisements and asking the user to which extent fellow wants into come reached with personal adverts. Being undesigning creates relegate and probably sexual desire make the user exist more open close to the sustainer content of an good use.<\p>

[codeman38]

….THE ANDROID APP REBLOGS FULL POSTS NOW.

:-D

Edit: Never mind. It doesn’t. It shows the full post in the preview… and then when you click the post button, it only posts an excerpt.

Seriously, Tumblr, what are your UI designers even on?!

[crowdranking]

1. too much information, 2. redundant information, 3. unknown words, 4. no feedback, 5. too many navigation possibilities

We all know the feeling - opening a new website and getting the sudden urge of leaving as soon as possible because of the sheer force of confusing and distracting things assaulting our senses. What are your biggest no-gos in terms of user interface design? Is too much information worse than too little? Is a wealth of navigation possibilities a bigger distraction than a wealth of unknown words? What makes you want to leave any given website as soon as possible, even if you really need it?

[krautnapped]

@Gizmodo Design: Not Digging It

Well, this certainly is a great day for RSS feeds.

Gawker Media—the head company of iO9, Gizmodo, Gawker, and Lifehacker, among many other well known blogs—has a new site design. Let's just say it leaves a little something to be desired.

Like actually WORKING on an iPad!

Pretty sad piece of work, right there. Especially considering how many iPad tablets Gizmodo's core audience probably owns (I'm gonna take a guess and say a lot higher percentage than the average population).

Even worse is that Gawker kicks the iPad users to the MOBILE site, which is obviously optimized for mobile phones.

Edit: Or not. RSS 5000 doesn't seem to work on Gawker Blogs, which is a shame. It's an amazing app on the iPad.