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Today's entry in the "Poorly Thought Out Label" list.

#BadDesign #vd #BadLabel #funny

Here, I encounter another damn bad and wrong website that dropped their password entirely for user login -- it's now only entering a phone # or your email address and having them send you a code -- AS IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A PASSWORD IN THEIR SYSTEM.

This process is far, far more annoying than just using passwords like normal websites.

Why in hell is this trend being shoved down our throats? It's terrible UX, and just stupid.

#websites #web #webdev #webdevelopment #UXUI #userexperience #idiots #fail #baddesign #internet #tech #webapps

Just finished disassembling a late-Intel-era Macbook Pro to remove the spicy pillows from it, and I gotta say, I am not impressed with Apple's hardware engineering on it.

I'm not talking about them gluing the cells of the battery to the case - that's been discussed to death, and was unnecessary. I'm talking about some other rather bad choices made during design.

Specifically: fasteners. In general, you want the fewest different types of threaded fasteners possible in your design. Fewer parts to keep in stock, fewer possible mistakes when assembling and disassembling units, etc. And Apple utterly failed this design rule.

It's like each separate part in this machine is held in with 3 different fasteners. Sometimes that's unavoidable in a design; you're using machine screw #1 for most things, but there's one that has to go into this particular place where it can't be as deep/long or there isn't room for the same head or something. But in this case, most of the fasteners are different for no very good reason. There's room for them to have used a common screw for many of the cases where they just ... didn't.

Paying the Apple tax for this kind of janky design (and user-hostile repairability) is just insulting.

"Designed badly in California, manufactured in China".

#Apple #AppleTax #Macbook #MacbookPro #glue #SpicyPillow #design #BadDesign #hardware #janky #UserHostile #CaptiveMarket #AppleMac

Husband found this insanity in the wild today. It gets worse the longer you look and the more you zoom in. Is it for real? No idea, but I do know this is why actual designers are needed.
#BadDesign #badMeme #posterdesign

This Pixel phone is really annoying when it's totally run out of battery and it's getting charged. It gets some juice, starts to boot up, boots up, beeps and boops, notices too little power, beeps and boops and then shuts down. Repeat for 20 minutes at least. So there's an annoying little box on my desk that beeps and boops constantly. Whoever designed this didn't actually ever test it.

#android #baddesign #pixel #stfu

What are some software annoyances that make no sense still existing in 2025?

I'll start:
How is there no "Switch default account" button for Google accounts still? If you use more than 1 Google account (YouTube, Gmail, Calendar, etc) and want to change which account is automatically loaded, then you need to log out of all your accounts and then make sure that the first one you log back into, is the one you want as your default.

#Technology #UX #Software #BadDesign #TechRant

What are some software annoyances that make no sense still existing in 2025?

I'll start:
How is there no "Switch default account" button for Google accounts still? If you use more than 1 Google account (YouTube, Gmail, Calendar, etc) and want to change which account is automatically loaded, then you need to log out of all your accounts and then make sure that the first one you log back into, is the one you want as your default.

#Technology #UX #Software #BadDesign #TechRant

What are some software annoyances that make no sense still existing in 2025?

I'll start:
How is there no "Switch default account" button for Google accounts still? If you use more than 1 Google account (YouTube, Gmail, Calendar, etc) and want to change which account is automatically loaded, then you need to log out of all your accounts and then make sure that the first one you log back into, is the one you want as your default.

#Technology #UX #Software #BadDesign #TechRant

What are some software annoyances that make no sense still existing in 2025?

I'll start:
How is there no "Switch default account" button for Google accounts still? If you use more than 1 Google account (YouTube, Gmail, Calendar, etc) and want to change which account is automatically loaded, then you need to log out of all your accounts and then make sure that the first one you log back into, is the one you want as your default.

#Technology #UX #Software #BadDesign #TechRant

What are some software annoyances that make no sense still existing in 2025?

I'll start:
How is there no "Switch default account" button for Google accounts still? If you use more than 1 Google account (YouTube, Gmail, Calendar, etc) and want to change which account is automatically loaded, then you need to log out of all your accounts and then make sure that the first one you log back into, is the one you want as your default.

#Technology #UX #Software #BadDesign #TechRant

I know there are lots of good reasons to be upset about #AI, but today the thing that is the most upsetting to me about it is that my new #Dell computer, that I got from work, has replaced the right CTRL key with a #MicrosoftCopilot key. 😑

Fuck you. Just -- fuck you.

#genai #copilot #copilotpc #baddesign #uxdesign

From my recent unexpected trip.

If a superfluous label for an unnecessary switch is ignored, does a tree fall in the forest and hit a mime?

#superfluous #unnecessary #design #BadDesign #philosophy #mime #DeepThoughts #label #switch #camera #ignore #IgnoredInstructions #IgnoreInstructions #WhatDidIJustSay #DontMakeMeTapTheSign #sign

Ugh. Reporting another anti-pattern from apple. Here is a screenshot.

Clicked on an epub file, and macos automatically opened this software. Cannot close it. Obviously you can kill it with some sort of a system monitor, but not through the software's normal UI.

Then I looked at the settings. This software sends all your data to apple engineers so they can know you better. What a disgrace.

#macos #apple #antipattern #UsersAreFodder #BadUIX #BadDesign

Ugh. Reporting another anti-pattern from apple. Here is a screenshot.

Clicked on an epub file, and macos automatically opened this software. Cannot close it. Obviously you can kill it with some sort of a system monitor, but not through the software's normal UI.

Then I looked at the settings. This software sends all your data to apple engineers so they can know you better. What a disgrace.

#macos #apple #antipattern #UsersAreFodder #BadUIX #BadDesign

Ugh. Reporting another anti-pattern from apple. Here is a screenshot.

Clicked on an epub file, and macos automatically opened this software. Cannot close it. Obviously you can kill it with some sort of a system monitor, but not through the software's normal UI.

Then I looked at the settings. This software sends all your data to apple engineers so they can know you better. What a disgrace.

#macos #apple #antipattern #UsersAreFodder #BadUIX #BadDesign

Ugh. Reporting another anti-pattern from apple. Here is a screenshot.

Clicked on an epub file, and macos automatically opened this software. Cannot close it. Obviously you can kill it with some sort of a system monitor, but not through the software's normal UI.

Then I looked at the settings. This software sends all your data to apple engineers so they can know you better. What a disgrace.

#macos #apple #antipattern #UsersAreFodder #BadUIX #BadDesign

OK What the fuck?
#PayPal has this bullshit when you update your phone number.

Do I check the boxes or not? I definitely do not want any contact from those twits.

#baddesign #shittydesign #design #ux #webdesign #anticonsumer

ah sweet, new man-made horrors beyond my comprehension just dropped

#YouTube #YouTubeStudio #DeceptivePatterns #DarkPatterns (using both since not everyone might know about the term "deceptive patterns") #BadDesign #UIDesign

Cheap garden light from #LIDL after first rain.
Who designed this? And who slapped IP44 rating on it?
#fail #badDesign #solarLight #crap #landfilled

So I sudo installed matlab on a linux box - because people still continue to release important scientific software on proprietary platforms...

Apparently the pathdef (a config file) is now owned by root, and there is no way to create a per-user config.

Any linux matlab users who have a good strategy for defining some sort of sane, maintaineable user-config ?

#matlab #mathworks #programming #linux #BadDesign

Terrible map. Suggests a luas circuit in Dublin City centre. There is no loop. #badDesign #map #mapDesign #printUX