Bad Interface

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A collection of purposefully bad user interface implementations. Inspired by posts on r/badUIbattles.

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Bad

Date inputs
Email inputs
- Ouija Email
Phone inputs
Volume inputs
- Pump It Volume
- Fiddle Volume

Bad Date

All the years

Please enter your birthdate.

Day

Month

Year

Dropdown is slow to open in Firefox.

Index of π

At what index of PI can we find your birthdate?

Index

Birthday

PI digits download

Day Adder

That's it, just days.

Birthday

Date Slider

How precise is your mouse?

Birthday

Date Boomerang

Time your choice.

Birthday

You haven't picked a date yet.

Reddit: Revolving birthday slider, just have to time your pick!

Roll the Date

Shake as best you can!

Birthday

Unit

Reddit: Shake some dice for your birthdate

Bad Email

Ouija Email

Who you gonna mail?

Reddit: Get your proton pack ready for when you're done with this Ouija board email input

Bad Phone

Looks easy, right?

Phone

Dropdown is slow to open in Firefox.

Random phone

Is this your phone number?

Phone

Phone Slider

How precise is your mouse?

Phone

Phone Boomerang

Time your choice.

Phone

You haven't picked a number yet.

Etch-a-Phone

Etch your number with OCR!

Click and rotate the dials!

You're number is +1 (___) ____

Reddit: An Etch-a-Sketch OCR phone input, bring out your best picasso!

Bad Volume

Pump It Volume!

Keep on pumpin' it!

Be careful, you could make the leak worse.

Reddit: Ready your arms, air-pump filled volume control!

Fiddle Volume

How exactly does this thing work?

You're volume is at 0%

Reddit: Who doesn't like solving switch and lever puzzles to change you're volume?