ux Memes

You enter a perfectly valid password with letters and numbers, meeting all their ridiculous requirements. But wait—the form rejects it because you used "ineligible characters." The kicker? You need to use "half-width roman characters." For those lucky enough to have never encountered this nightmare: half-width vs full-width characters are a thing in Japanese and other East Asian text systems. Full-width characters take up more space (think ａ vs a). Some legacy systems or poorly designed forms throw a fit if you accidentally use the wrong width, even though they look nearly identical. Instead of, you know, just normalizing the input on the backend like a sane developer, they decided to make it YOUR problem. Because why make UX better when you can just confuse users with error messages that sound like they're written in ancient riddles? Classic enterprise move right there.

Someone "fixed" OpenAI's UI by making the popup text more concise and readable, then shot their shot asking for a job at $5/hour plus a can of cola. Honestly? That's underselling yourself king, but I respect the hustle. The side-by-side comparison shows how a simple UI tweak can make a huge difference—turns out even AI companies need better UX designers. The salary negotiation strategy is questionable though. Even interns get paid more than that, and they usually don't even get the cola. Fun fact: The original popup is unnecessarily wordy. "Run your next API request by adding credits" vs "Run your next API request by ad..." (cut off). Sometimes the best code is the code you delete, and apparently the same goes for UI copy.

Product managers and UX designers really thought they did something by adding that tutorial button, huh? Meanwhile, 99% of users are smashing "Yeah, Skip!" faster than they can say "I'll figure it out myself" and then immediately flooding Slack with "how do I..." questions. The real kicker? Your team spent three sprints building that gorgeous interactive tutorial with tooltips, animations, and progress tracking. Nobody watches it. Ever. But somehow it's the devs' fault when users can't find the export button that's been in the same spot for two years. We've all been on both sides of this. Skip the tutorial, break something, then complain the documentation sucks. It's the circle of tech life.

Ah, the digital equivalent of waterboarding! This masterpiece of UI sadism forces you to enter your house number digit by digit with separate inputs for thousands, hundreds, tens, and units. And just when you think it can't get worse, it makes you select each character of your postcode using sliders that go from SPACE to Z. This is the form that Satan himself would create if he worked in frontend development. The designer clearly woke up and chose violence that day. Somewhere, a UX designer is having heart palpitations just looking at this. The best part? The "Intentionally Bad UX" title - as if we needed that clarification. It's like labeling a tornado as "Intentionally Windy Weather."

Ah yes, the classic accessibility symbol that's clearly been through QA testing. Designer: "I've created this perfectly aligned wheelchair icon." Users: "I prefer my accessibility with a side of existential crisis, thanks." This is what happens when you deploy to production without checking how your CSS renders on actual pavement. The real-world equivalent of "it worked on my machine."

Ah, the classic programmer's paradox! A button labeled "Save" with a trash icon. Is it saving your work or deleting it? The cognitive dissonance is giving me runtime errors in my brain. It's like Schrödinger's button - your data is simultaneously preserved and obliterated until you click it. Only a truly sadistic UX designer would create this abomination that violates every principle of intuitive design. The perfect trap for sleep-deprived developers who just want to preserve their 4 hours of coding before the standup meeting.

Frontend devs showing off their new project like: "Check out this sick bowl reveal!" *adds another div wrapper* Now it's a completely different bowl! Revolutionary UI/UX right there. Nothing says "I know what I'm doing" like nesting divs 17 layers deep until your DOM looks like a Russian doll family reunion. The browser's just silently weeping in the corner.

Ah, the classic UX principle "Don't Make Me Think" meets reality. The developer proudly creates what they believe is an elegant, intuitive teapot UI. Meanwhile, the user gets a face full of coffee trying to figure out which obscure spout actually pours the liquid. It's the perfect metaphor for when developers build "user-friendly" interfaces that somehow require a PhD to operate. The road to unusable software is paved with developers who never watched a single user test.