Fun? Really?
Well yes. As an avid UX researcher & designer I’ll admit to a certain schadenfreude when seeing a really bad design. Some of it is banana-peel territory: a kind of “there but for the grace of God go I.” In any event, as long as no one was injured in the making of the product, it can be both fun & instructive to review the many slips and falls of user experience. Here are 10 that gave me a laugh.
10 Classic UX Design Fails That Teach Us How Not to Do UX (Careerfoundry.com)
Ever found yourself accidentally posting something you didn’t mean to? Ever ended up in the community support forum of an app seeking answers, only to find the other users are just as lost as you are? Ever been driven into a state of frenzy by music that started playing when you entered a site because you have no idea where it’s coming from—or how to make it stop?
If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, you’ve most likely been a victim of bad UX.
When done well, UX design is virtually invisible to its users. It’s when a UX design feature has been executed poorly that it sticks out like a fox in a hen-house. Sometimes UX design is so bad that it becomes counterproductive—begging the question: “What was actually going through the designer’s head when making this design decision?”