User experiences

UX, UI and gamification are everywhere. I too have an opinion about it.
Even Facebook, bol.com, Dropbox and Youtube regularly make a mess of their UX:

The Dutch Public Broadcasting can still learn something in the field of UX

This password: as74%$k./jkpqw doesn't meet the requirements, but why not? If you have specific password requirements for your users to come up with, display those requirements somewhere on your website so that users don't have to guess what requirements you have.
www.npo.nl

Seen on 09-07-2023

You can chat with us all day

This text is shown all the time, until you close the browser window.
- What the fuck is an "agent"? I want to chat with a human!
- The agent is on his way. Is he in a traffic queue? Did he overslept? If you keep users waiting, at least give an estimate of the waiting time.
www.koopjesdrogisterij.nl
Seen on 04-19-2023

Are you Sick, Sick, Sick or Ill?

A sick UI of Instructure's Canvas LMS: you can click the same function (student is sick) 4x, of which 2x are red, 1x black and 1x orange disease.

This while unsubscribed with reason "only" has the same "checkboxes" twice (in quotes because those "checkboxes" look like Bootstrap buttons).
www.instructure.com
Seen on 02-17-2023

Save points extra slowly with Jumbo Extra

Jumbo Extra app shows a negative number of points. This way you save Extra slowly.
Seen on 01-27-2023

This is organised by Gin Abagi and null null

Gin Abagi and null null organise this
www.gofundme.com
Seen on 12-21-2022

No connection with

User-friendly message /s: no connection with .
www.linkedin.com
Seen on 12-10-2022

MaNaN MaNaN

The number of days between now (November 3, 2022) and November 3, 2023 is: NaN
Statler: The question is: "What is a MaNaN MaNaN?"
Waldorf: The question is, "Who cares?"
portal.azure.com (Microsoft)
Seen on 11-03-2022

De Volkskrant: white letters on a white background

Make all headlines (h3 elements) white so you can't read them. They are under the heading "Analysis" and are underlined in blue.
Volkskrant.nl
Seen on 07-28-2022

View all {0)

Haven't found what you were looking for yet? Then view all {0}. Or view all null of Curver.
www.blokker.nl
Seen on 06-14-2022

Show the same old message as often as possible

Every time I visit Twitter, the same 'messenger' popup comes up showing old messages. And it takes up more than half of the screen height.
www.twitter.com
Seen on 04-12-2022

What language do they speak in the dishwasher?

Artificial "intelligence" in Google search.
www.google.nl
Seen on 03-14-2022

Fuck CSS

Always show a blurry left line when your webshop is checking payment.
www.etsy.com
Seen on 02-16-2022

Pussy don't eat animals

Feel free to have everything translated automatically.
www.etsy.com
Seen on 02-16-2022

Your annual overview is ready, but you are not allowed to view it

mijn.ing.nl
Seen on 02-09-2022

Show an alert that shows an error message out of context

Buienradar displays an alert every time you choose a location from your list of saved locations. An alert is not part of a good UX. And certainly not if the error message makes no sense (I am selecting a location from the list of existing locations, I'm not creating a new one).
buienradar.nl
Seen on 02-05-2022

Popups that add nothing to functionality

If I can reject all cookies and still navigate your site, just don't show that whole cookie popup asking if I might want cookies after all.
Seen on 01-21-2022

Click Close to go to a completely different page

Simple UX Rules:
- When I click on Close the image should go away and not go to a completely different page like IMDB does if you click on a movie poster.
- The Close button can be on the right side (top right).
- If I can't find the Close button because it's black and on the left then the Esc key should work.
- Esc key should always work.
www.imdb.com
Seen on 01-02-2022

Android Studio gives really useful information to the end user with its version numbers

Seen on 07-25-2021

Preferably place a button on top of the text so that you cannot read the text

Scrolling does not help either: the button remains.
www.tvgids.nl
Seen on 07-04-2021

PostNL also finds CSS difficult

I would like to give my opinion to PostNL. Especially about the layout of this page.
Seen on 06-18-2021

Download or download?

Rather 2 of the same buttons than 1 so that the user has more choice.
www.template4all.com
Seen on 06-14-2021

When I click DOWN-vote I get a popup asking if I want to see more of these types of commercials

Reddit app.
Seen on 06-13-2021

100 identical pictures say more than words

https://www.mijnserie.nl/toplijst/
Seen on 06-11-2021

Facebook text wrap

There's so little space on a HiDPI monitor, isn't there?
facebook.com
Seen on 06-02-2021

Invoice from Google

Every month I get an email from Google saying:
Your monthly invoice for Google Cloud Platform & APIs is available. The PDF document is attached at the bottom of this email.
IMPORTANT: The amount will be debited automatically. You don't have to do anything yourself
Seen on 06-01-2021

Recursive Browsing at the Municipality of Bergen Lb

www.bergen.nl - This page is not working, click to do another round-trip to the server and return to this error page.
Seen on 05-28-2021

Whore op Facebook

Facebook shortens the word Hoera(Hurray) to Hoer (Whore).
https://www.facebook.com/groups/805533149469598/
Seen on 05-28-2021

Chegg: You're out of luck

Page with only an image and site title. No login or register button. You can't click on anything.
https://www.chegg.com/auth?type=simplifiedstudy&action=signup
Seen on 05-27-2021

Page choice: go to page 1,5,6,7 or 10

It wasn't Fibonacci, nor any other known sequence I think.
fabrics-online.nl
Seen on 05-27-2021

Portrait shopping cart

I don't think this is what they mean by "responsive".
Parapluwinkel.nl
Seen on 05-27-2021

Once upon a time, years ago...

We live in the year 2021. So why is there a Dropbox icon on the right that says August 25, 2018? I can't even click on it, it's just a picture with some text taking up a third of the screen.
Seen on 05-23-2021

Language switch: choose between Dutch (an English word), Flemish (a Dutch word) or ...

https://oxigym.sportbitapp.nl/cbm/account/abonnement/
Seen on 05-23-2021

Gamification at NOS.nl's video player

1. Welcome to NOS.nl: the volume is always at maximum upon arrival, which is good for the hearing impaired and the neighbours. There is no volume control on screen to turn it down.

2. Mouse over the speaker icon to try to turn it down. Oh wait, after that there is an extra experience (gamification?) where you have to move the mouse upwards in a strictly straight vertical narrow line. If you get off the narrow path, it's game over: you're finished and the volume control immediately disappears to the 4th dimension.

https://nos.nl/collection/13865/artikel/2381935-finale-songfestival-memorabele-avond-voor-fans-en-artiesten-we-gaan-naar-italie
Seen on 05-23-2021

CEO at bol.com

1. Electronics Actions,
2. Electronics,
3. Electronics actions (with space spelling error in Dutch),
4. Electronics Deals (also with a space spelling error) are all phrases for the same thing: the bol.com page you are looking at right now.

https://www.bol.com/nl/m/electronics-acties/?promo=Head_907_Mnav_CRS_4_electronicsacties
Seen on 05-23-2021

UI controls of JetBrains

This seems like an elegant solution for choosing the file format of your download. However, I find it quite confusing:

- The two halves look alike, they are even connected - so it looks like a control - but if you click on the left half it starts downloading something and the right half shows a dropdown list, nothing more.

- You have to FIRST select something on the right and THEN download something on the left. A UI flow from right to left.

https://www.jetbrains.com/clion/download/#section=windows
Seen on 04-25-2021

Seen on 03-26-2021

We make the autoplay icon gray because all other icons are already white

youtube.com
Seen on 03-23-2021

Checkbox == cross out

Super handy checkboxes. Click on it to be able to cross out a piece of text!

https://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2009/05/ridiculously-easy-lentil-soup.html
Seen on 03-10-2021