Online Game Highlights The Problems With Bad UI

Since the establishment of the Internet as a permanent fixture within society's conscience, many web design trends have been either refined or excluded from what is considered acceptable design practice. User interface design standards have undergone an especially stark evolution as a result of modern search engines defaulting to awarding relevantly high spots within generated search result pages to websites that do not compromise their UX with bad UI. That said, small pieces of widely discredited UI design philosophy occur sporadically across various websites, but they are usually not noteworthy to many viewers because they come across as isolated examples.

A website located at userinyerface.com comically presents a user experience that compiles seemingly every bad UI-design trend imaginable. The audience is asked to navigate the pandemonium as though it were a game, and all sorts of bad design decisions make the mere act of starting the game a tricky proposition. A round "button" that reads "no" must be ignored while the printed instructions underneath must be followed quite literally; the user must click the unassuming word "here" in the phrase "please click here to go to the next page" to proceed. This is not self-evident because the word "click" is underlined as though it were the phrase's resident hyperlink and the "next page" segment is colored differently in a way that also suggests a hyperlink.

When the game begins, the audience must deal with having to input a mock password and email address by first manually deleting the grayed-out instructional text within the input fields. The email address section unhelpfully splits the domain of the user's requested email into its own field and forces the user to pick a top-level domain from a disorganized drop-down menu rather than type it manually. Multiple pop-ups offering "help" interrupt the user's struggles to pass the game's first screen and make it difficult to work out so much as how to clear them away. At least three other screens await the player if the "next" button can be pressed meaningfully, but those screens can force careless players to restart the game from the beginning. For more information click here https://userinyerface.com/.