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Conveniently enter your phone number with a single input (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
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[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 137 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If you haven’t seen it there are others in the worst telephone entry fields. https://imgur.com/a/4f3XB

There’s also a collection of terrible volume controls out there. https://imgur.com/gallery/5BFynxT

Terrible gender controls: https://imgur.com/gallery/HdFhJZE

Edit: added some imgur folders, some Google sites have a more complete collection

[-] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 53 points 9 months ago

Hi, I'm the creator of /r/baduibattles, and one of the mods of !bad_ui_battles@programming.dev if anyome here would like to submit terrible UI here

[-] master5o1@lemmy.nz 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I don't have an example, but I would like to see a rotary phone dial ui as input method for a phone number.

Edit: I see there's mentions and a gif in another comment.

[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 36 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

7 Dimensional Gender Coordinates got me

[-] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 9 months ago

Poe’s Law moment. I can’t tell whether the terms are made up for the sake of the meme or actually used by gender theorists.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Those look like names of medicines tbh.

[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 14 points 9 months ago

The compressed installer for doom was about 2MB if you wanted to use that as a gender.

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

My favourite is the "upload your genitals as jpeg"

[-] lemmingnosis@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

So simple. So dumb.

[-] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 16 points 9 months ago

“Is your phone ringing y/n” is my absolute favourite, but they’re all so good!

[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago

Somewhat more controversially there was a recent attempt at “improving” gender input fields.

https://imgur.com/gallery/HdFhJZE

[-] harry315@feddit.de 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

to be fair, the first colour picker isn't too bad, it it?

[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

My amusement comes from the fact that in most cases a gender input field is just an invasion of privacy, juxtaposed against these ridiculous over implementations. My favourite is the gender fluid one.

[-] Zoidberg@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

What bugs me is: why in the fuck are they asking for people's gender? Other than medical questions (where you specify your birth gender), I think for the vast majority of cases the question should not be relevant.

[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah pretty much, medical and dating information maybe. Anything else is just an invasion of privacy.

[-] dan@upvote.au 7 points 9 months ago

Hahaha I hadn't seen the volume one before. I love it!

[-] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 6 points 9 months ago

That second catapulting volume is cool

[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

There are some pretty good gamified ones for the phone number.

[-] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

I appreciate the imgur links and not direct images.

[-] Bunnylux@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

I rarely laugh out loud and my coworkers are suspicious.

[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 12 points 9 months ago

It’s not in the collection but I recall a phone entry where the slider would move along the digits of pi until you found your phone number.

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 7 points 9 months ago

That one was my favourite.

Especially when it makes someone stop and think about it.

Hang on... would that work?

An infinite, non repeating sequence of digits?

Yeah, that would contain all possible sequences of arbitrary length.

[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 months ago

Found it https://i.imgur.com/rh0mDnK.gifv there is a discussion about this https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3495590/proof-of-the-existence-of-all-phone-numbers-in-pi

Apparently all combinations of 10 digits appear in the first 241641121048 digits of pi.

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

I love those so much.

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

twitch

[-] whodatdair@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

What a terrible day to have eyes

[-] litchralee@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Thank you for reminding me of this: https://youtube.com/shorts/XqNrO33bxmw

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 3 points 9 months ago

Those volume controls are fucking incredible.

[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

The creativity of the awfulness amuses and disturbs me.

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Is it bad that I kind of like the rotary phone input?

[-] DogWater@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I swear I saw this guy posting his community's submissions for the worst UI/best UI jokes and this was one of them

[-] Zoidberg@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

And don't forget the mother of all bad interfaces game: http://userinyerface.com

[-] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 34 points 9 months ago

Is there a Lemmy version of UI battles?

[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago

One of the mods posted a link https://programming.dev/comment/7679900

[-] kbal@fedia.io 25 points 9 months ago

Great idea, they just requested one minor change: Make the slider circular so users can "dial" the number like everyone is used to.

[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

There is a rotary phone one. https://i.imgur.com/P2zIXIh.gifv

[-] dan@upvote.au 14 points 9 months ago

Prevent people under 25 from using your form with this one weird trick.

[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago

A project on my todo list is add Bluetooth to an old bell rotary phone so I can make phone calls from it. Also I find it hilarious to use pulse dialing as an input for a cell phone.

[-] sjmulder@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 9 months ago

2-Factor authentication

Click Continue when your authenticator app shows a code with two leading zeroes.

[-] alyth@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

No leading zeroes :(

[-] GluWu@lemm.ee 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Could you not repost memes on the same instances two hours after the first person? Just save it and wait at least a week.

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

If I had seen it posted, I would have held off. I'm not subbed to every community on this instance if you saw it somewhere else.

[-] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago

Power Bi has entered the chat

[-] Tja@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago

So it begins...

[-] kevincox@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

Reminds me of birthday fields with manual drop downs. It is always faster to just type, especially for the month number which in the custom dropdowns often can't be typed with the keyboard.

Plus there are native HTML date pickers now. Please!

[-] wrekone@lemmyf.uk 3 points 9 months ago

This hits too close to home.

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