#UXFail

The Gregzonegregly@retro.pizza
2025-06-15

YouTube 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.

#ux #uxfail #youtube #morningthoughts

2025-06-07

Az pedig már csak hab a tortán, hogy minden kód kisbetűs, de begépeléskor a felület nagybetűsít... tehát nem azt látod, amit begépeltél :-D

rendszerüzenet a nagybetűsítésről
Thomas Svensson 🖖tsvenson@fosstodon.org
2025-06-01

The #MeGlobalState has to be rethought!

Something I think a lot about is how common signaling personal availability state sill is in com-apps. Made much worse by having several of them running in parallel on same or multiple devices.

While this was quite useful in the dial-up age of internet. In today's always-on, from multiple device, they rarely make any sense.

What's worse: For many of us - especially on the neurodiversity spectrum - they cause all sorts of uncomfortable feelings.

#UXfail

Global personal state, shown here as a green filled circle with a checkmark on my user avatar.
Pēterispb@masts.lv
2025-05-31

We do not, however, care about your DPI settings. #spotify #uxfail

Photo of in-car Android screen showing Spotify cookie consent prompt titled "We Care About Your Privacy". the font size for most of the body text is too large and lines are overlapping.
Thomas Svensson 🖖tsvenson@fosstodon.org
2025-05-30

Someone at #HP 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 Screen

Those ✅ this layout are for sure not affected by their own stupidity!

#keyboard #UXfail 🤬

HP Omnobook keyboard, where the key for <>| that normally is to the left of the Z-key, instead have had its space taken over by a wider Shift-key. Now <>| has been moved to the L-key as shown here.
2025-05-27

Wow somebody sat down, looked at this screen and thought, "Yep, that makes sense."...

choose A or B? We'll explain why later. Choose. NOW!

#ux #UXFail #WebDesign #webDev

(no, the blurred out text did not include the explanation - it just wasn't relevant to my point)

Screenshot from an online form. Text: "Before you start. Adding your beneficiaries. You can make a nomination or an expression of wish. We'll explain the differences as you complete the journey. "
Then there's 2 options and you must select 1: Make a nomination or Expression of wish. The Next button is greyed-out until you select one. There is no explanation of what the difference is!
2025-05-26

Why is this job still up on the board and being sent to my email if it is a "test"? #uxfail

(DO NOT APPLY) Test - Managed Services - AI Operations - Senior Manager $200K-$250K
Jérémy -Jeey-jeeynet@framapiaf.org
2025-05-26

Y'a que chez moi que #Mattermost affiche comme un bouton désactivé pour "Renvoyer l'email" pour se reconnecter sur le client Mattermost ?
Parce qu'il faut cliquer sur le lien envoyé par cet e-mail mais qui n'est jamais envoyé parce que personne ne comprend qu'il faut cliquer sur un bouton apparemment désactiver pour renvoyer un mail qu'iels n'ont jamais reçu ...
#UXFail #UX

Impression écran du client Mattermost qui montre une page mais il faut cliquer sur un bouton qui apparait comme désactivé, mais qui ne l'est pas...
Christian Tietzectietze
2025-05-23

Let me click the "start meeting button" real quick like I used to ...

hey come back

argh

Aurimas Černiusaurisc4@floss.social
2025-05-23

According fanboys MacOS is supposedly this marvel of usability.
So I've got bluetooth headphones. No visual indication whether they are connected. Could hit volume buttons, but there is no sound feedback either. So it's either couple mouse clicks on tiny buttons, or play something and be ready to disturb people around.
Yes, fanboys, I know it's headphones problem, not your beloved OS problem. I claim otherwise.

#Apple #ux #UXfail

PositivDenken 🤯zeank
2025-05-21

Yes, Konjunktiv, fucking iPhone, Konjunktiv, you ducking speak it?!

2025-05-14

I 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:

support.google.com/mail/answer

The problem is that the help page instructs me to click on an icon that doesn't exist.

#google #gmail #uxfail

Julien Lengrand-Lambertjlengrand@mastodon.online
2025-05-06

You know you've done a great job when your users get an avalanche of permission requests from each of your #ecosystem app on each update.... #macos #uxfail

2025-04-25

Legendary onboarding by Meta. New AI feature growth engineered into my list of chats and I can't even interact with it.

#ux #uxfail

Screenshot of Meta AI chat app.
Chris Freitagcreativefriday
2025-04-23

Went to file my state periodic report for my business today and was instructed to file with the federal FinCEN database (financial crimes enforcement). I go fill out pages of forms and submit my information, and I get this alert message…

*AFTER* I went through the whole process.

A long-winded message to inform me that domestic companies are exempt from needing to fill out the form I just filled out.
Peter Makholm (Dansk)pmakholm@norrebro.space
2025-04-22

@tofticles Dén undrede jeg mig også over.

Fair nok hvis oplysningerne ikke er blevet digitaliseret eller migreret, men så skriv det istedet! #uxfail

Peter Makholm (Dansk)pmakholm@norrebro.space
2025-04-22

Meta er igen ved at indsamle passivt samtykke til at de må bruge data til deres GenAI-løsning.

De skriver at jeg kan gøre indsigelse og hvis jeg allerede har gjort indsigelse behøver jeg ikke at gøre det igen. Det ville virker mere troværdigt hvis de skrev at jeg *havde* gjort indsigelse. #uxfail

Notification på Facebook:

Vi er ved at forbedre AI-funktionerne for dig. Se hvordan vi vil bruge dine oplysninger.
2025-04-17

Ouch, la taille des sous-titres qui ne s'adapte pas à la taille de l'écran sur le lecteur vidéo des TED Talks. C'est illisible...
#a11y #uxFail

Capture d'écran du site TED Talks. Je regarde "This is what a digital coup looks like". Une personne sur scène parle, avec une photo des techs bros derrière elle (Zuckenberg, Bezos, Musk...). Le sous-titre affiche "It's broligarchy"La même vidéo, mais en plein écran. Le sous-titre affiche toujours "It's broligarchy" mais c'est tout petit
2025-04-07

Normāls UX feils — nolikt simkartes atvilktni blakus mikrofona caurumam. Kā jūs domājiet, kurā caurumā es vispirms iebakstīju ar saspraudi? Un esmu pilnīgi pārliecināts, ka es tāds neesmu viens. #uxfail

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