#baddesign — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #baddesign, aggregated by home.social.
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Back in the day, couchsurfing.com was a worthwhile way to meet people and find free stays while traveling. I randomly got a marketing email after not using the service in many years and it’s gone full ai slop mode. Enshittification to the max. Sad to see it.
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I hope no one I know will use this.
AI will find a way around it quickly. People who need to use screen readers or people like me who need to recognise the shape of words to read won't.
I can't find a way in their site to point out the disability access issues. -
When localization of your UI is a check box. #ui #fail #badDesign
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For years I've defended #roku as the "least enshittified" video device. Well, they've finally joined the club.
Fuck you, Roku. Fuck you.
Thanks for adding a ton of crap I don't use to my home screen and removing my ability to customize it to my liking.
You're as awful as #chromecast now. Worse, because you used to be better.
smh
#enshittification #rokutv #rokuinc #assholes #appification #baddesign #fuckroku #Rokuhomescreen
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Why do corporate emails systems still have #spam folders if they use an upstream perimeter defense system for #phishing? I mean, I can report phishing but there is no button in my #Outlook to just mark an email as regular -- non-phishing -- junk.
I have a folder for email that I have "blocked" but no button to use the folder. WTF?
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Here we go. I am writing again. And that means using the abomination that is macos. OH MY GOD does the UIX suck.
I had about three word (yes, sigh) frames open for different things. The UIX just swooshes across all the desktops with no regard for the user's intention. It associates frames with random desktops.
Just visual effects and no real thought behind the design at all. Awesome hardware fucked over by infantile UIX.
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Assembled wisdom of the great Mastodon, hear my quest for understanding: how do people wear flip- flops?
I honesty do not understand how the design of a sandal in which the foot is restrained by an upright between the first two toes is widely considered to be comfortable -- or even tolerable. Every time I have attempted to walk more than a few blocks in such footwear I begin bleeding from the chasm carved between my toes.
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Ich löse: die Markierung ganz links war ursprünglich für den Wasser Sensor gedacht, wie rechts für den Fön, dieser wurde aber dann anders umgesetzt.: Sensorloch direkt vor Wasserhahn, ( den man im stehen aber nicht sieht) so dass das linke Symbole überflüssigeweise keine mehr Funktion hat. Dazu kam, dass Wasser alle oder Pumpe kaputt war. #baddesign
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Where is the water? how to activate? ( u have 3 seconds ;)
Are there any blogs accounts collecting #baddesign #designfails for #train #plane #publictransport #bathroom #doorhandle #interfaces ? also #badarchitecture or # wegeleitsystem #presshere #confusing #sensorbullshit #wewantbuttons against #wtfdesign ?
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Our five year old "commercial technology" washing machine stopped working today. Thanks to DYI repair videos, I was able to run a diagnostic to see the error code and identify the clutch slider as the culprit (of course the manufacturer's website was of no use here).
I could have ordered a replacement part online for about 50 $CAD but the part design is so bad that I preferred repairing the broken part instead.
The steel ring around the slider is held with only six small plastic "pegs" about 3mm in diameter. Those pegs broke off from the repeated actuation of the clutch during normal operation (electromagnet exerting an axial force on the steel ring). I drilled small holes in the plastic slider in which I self-tapped 3x4mm set screws (aka grub screws). I slid the steel ring back on and backed out the screws so they would engage in the ring.
#DYIRepair #DYI #appliance #FixIt #BadDesign #RightToRepair #DesignedToFail
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WTF is wrong with people. I get wanting a style but when style gets in the way of functionality we have an issue. Would have loved to read more ozzy stories but the crappy website design made that impossible. Well impossible is strong, I refuse to work around it . #ozzy #music #baddesign
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Wait... so is it a spelling mistake or not?
Correct as in "yes, correct, it IS a spelling mistake" or "No, the word is spelled correctly." in which case why did you flag it? And why can I only ignore it? or if it is wrong, then are you offering to Correct it for me? Then why don't I have an option to correct it?
Also, DON'T YOU KNOW? Isn't this what I'm paying you for?Narrator: it was spelled incorrectly. Should be: `Bureaucracy`
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Today's entry in the "Poorly Thought Out Label" list.
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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
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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
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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.
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CW: bad design grumble, the sequel
_Two_ screwdrivers actually!
I feel sorry for people who get one of these ridiculous items and don't have tools handy!
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CW: bad design grumble
Whoever specified this packaging needs to go and do a different job!
"Squeeze pads and turn to open" it says on the top. I can see how it's _meant_ to work: you push in the sides of the lid so it goes from circular to oval, and the catches at the long ends of the oval disconnect and let you turn the lid. But it won't do it! The amount it's able to be squeezed is insufficient to make the catches go past. I think I'm going to need a screwdriver to stick under the edges and lever the lid outward.
Really seems like nobody actually tested it! Maybe the prototype was made of softer plastic?
And I've not even got arthritis, which makes this kind of squeezing task even more unpleasant.
The most pernicious thing about this nonsense is that once I've got the lid off, I'm not going to want to put it back on, thus obviating the whole point of having supposed safety lids at all. It's like when you make people change their password every month and they can't remember all the different ones, so they just have it on a post-it on their monitor.
