September 1, 2009

Worst User Interfaces

If you feel like wasting a few minutes, Darren Geraghty has found a hilarious stackoverflow.com thread called Worst UI You’ve Ever Used which has some of the most atrocious examples of really poor user interface design I’ve ever seen.

Tab Overload

And once you’re through with that list, there’s also the Interface Hall of Shame, of course.

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If you liked this, you'll love my book. It's called Designed for Use: Create Usable Interfaces for Applications and the Web. In it, I cover the whole design process, from user research and sketching to usability tests and A/B testing. But I don't just explain techniques, I also talk about concepts like discoverability, when and how to use animations, what we can learn from video games, and much more.

You can find out more about it (and order it directly, printed or as a DRM-free ebook) on the Pragmatic Programmers website.