#asshole design

[corrie-zodori]

Ok but honestly fuck bluetooth devices that start screaming about needing a recharge at 30% battery. Like dude you have 30% of your charge still, but you're gonna interrupt my music every 60 seconds because of it??? fuck off????

[sleepydross]

People who design benches made to harm homeless people should be a prominent group that gets beaten into the ICU as soon as possible, because it takes real evil to even be willing to do that job. You're responsible for doing harm, torturing the poor and homeless. You're not a designer or an artist, you're a monster.

[paintedskystudios]

Ayo @staff @support this is what they call a “dark pattern”, or alternatively “a$$hole design”

[october-embers]

Has anyone else noticed how unusually and ridiculously easy it is to accidentally open an add on the tumblr app? It’s like I touch it to scroll past it, and it opens that shit up. No button press is actually required to open a add rated link. Talk about asshole design.

This feels so gross considering how our information is harvested so much these days and pretty much anything you open/view collects your data and sells it. Is tumblr really this desperate for add revenue? I hardly use the app because it’s trash, and I definitely won’t be now.

[moshi-tehkitty]

There is already a problem with little kids accidentally bringing adult beverages to school because they grabbed the wrong can for their lunch box. This packaging would absolutely not help. A teacher could easily overlook this.

marketing guy: hmmm yeah we need to make vodka soda branded as “gay water.” make sure the packaging looks like diaper packaging.

other marketing guy: maybe we should add funny little stickers, like–

both at the same time: racism is small dick energy!

[krissiefox]

I am both glad that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 finally came out and also dissapointed with the result. "deluxe version" over 100 dollars, pre-order exclusive crap....ugh. Why did they have to turn one of my fave spooky survival games into another "AAA" shit show?

Hopefully when it's been out a while I can just pick up a cheap used copy on Xbox One, i don't want to support this sleazy behavior.

[mothmanfucker2]

talk about asshole design holy shit

[jonthink]

"Rate our app"

The one time you want to rate the app, somehow, it become impossible to rate the app! Somehow, just somehow, you will not find the option to rate the app!

Then, when you don't have time: "Rate our app! Rate our app! 5 stars!!!!"

[ojiro-s-hellish-site]

Why did this remind me of how you used to have to join ToonTown to unlock characters for Nickgames 😭

[sparklybitch-101]

FUCK

i just cleared my fucking search history and guess what. I FORGOT TO UNCHECK THE FUCKING "clear cache and sign me out of all sites." WHY THE FUCK IS THAT THERE NOW I HAVE TO RESIGN INTO ALL OF MY GODAMN ACCOUNTS

[bixels]

“America has no culture” is an inherently racist statement. Especially when talking about California, which has enormous populations (yes, plural) of Hispanic and Asian immigrants.

It’s such a self report that you see the American hegemony, the American monolith, as a singularly white entity that’s worthy of scorn. I want that person to look at the Black American NYC Miku design and tell me with their full chest that that isn’t culture. Especially when modern pop culture owes so much to Black American culture — hip hop, language, streetwear and fashion, pop music, jazz — as is actively erasing their roots, saying all of America has no culture is a dumbass statement.

Also, “all the US Mikus are dressed in generic casual street style for coolish weather.” The original Brazilian Miku is wearing sunglasses, a crop top, short shorts, a bikini, and flip flops you absolute dunce. If you’re gonna be rude at least be consistent.

[havenshereagain]

DPxDC Idea

Danny working at Wayne Enterprises as some sort of engineer, uses the in-house app for all his blueprints and stuff

He starts getting notes from a coworker in-app, and assumes its this annoying older guy in his department who constantly undermines him because of his age, despite his education and past achievements (i feel like in this AU the Fentons react well to the reveal and they work together on a number of non-lethal ecto inventions that have Danny's name attached to them)

Except one day his coworker mentions never using the app, and Danny suddenly realizes there's only one other TD he could've been arguing with in the notes of the app

[waytoomuchanalysis]

Tumblr: Hey you can customize the tabs on your dashboard now!

Me: Oh wow, cool! Let’s take a look!

Tumblr: Great, here it is!

Me: …so I can turn my tags tab off. Can I add new tabs or turn off the for you tab?

Tumblr: LMAO NO. But you can move them around!

Me: I can’t move the Following tab though.

Tumblr: But you can move two of them around!

[coulsonlives]

PSA for artists, and peeps with personal/business websites in general:

I was looking at the 'about' page of an art blog today. They said they had a personal website, but instead of linking to this directly, guess what they did? The page had a picture of their business card, which had a QR code on it. They told people to, 'scan this code with your phone in order to go to my website!'

Please for the love of god, DONT DO THIS.

It's so unnecessarily convoluted. Just link directly to your website. It takes the person one click. If you wanna show your card, just show it underneath or whatever. I'm not gonna take out my phone, open my QR reader app, take the picture, then start browsing the site on my phone when I wasn't even browsing on that device in the first place.

But the convolutedness isn't the biggest problem here. The biggest problem is, if you require people to scan a QR code to visit your site, or worse, to learn what the url of that site is, you're totally destroying the ability of anyone who isn't on a desktop to visit it.

Because seriously: how is someone supposed to scan a QR code, which is usually done with a phone, if they are viewing the page on their phone?! If someone is on a phone and their only way to even learn the url of your personal site is by scanning a QR code, guess what: they're not gonna be able to go to your website at all, and they won't even know what the url is. Maybe some phones have a crazy feature to read QR codes on-screen, but it's silly to expect every person with a phone to have this feature. And nobody is gonna download these features for the first time just to do something that should, really, only take two seconds to do.

Just don't do this. It's not fancy: it's impractical, cumbersome, badly thought out, and it's gonna make a lot of people close the page faster than you can say 'oops' because they don't wanna deal with it, and I don't blame em.

Just link the website.

[wigglybunfish]

Designs for the funky humans of PreservationAux, Perihelion, + one very tired SecUnit and a monstrous Research Transport AI.

[biglisbonnews]

The worst volume control designs you've ever seen I stumbled across this Reddit thread the other day of intentionally terribly designed volume control UIs, and there is some truly awesome UI work at play. And to be clear, I mean "awesome" as in, they will leave you full of awe. — Read the rest https://boingboing.net/2023/04/03/the-worst-volume-control-designs-youve-ever-seen.html