Ux design Memes

The Prompt

3 days ago 228.8K views 1 shares

Microsoft's vision of the future: where asking the AI to open Calculator results in it removing the Calculator app entirely, giving you "probabilistic mathematical estimates" instead, and then offering to create a PowerPoint about the history of addition. Because why would you want deterministic results from a calculator when you could get an answer that's "likely between 3 and 5, with high confidence it's approximately 4"? The user just wants to do basic arithmetic, but Windows 12's AI-first approach has decided that legacy apps like Calculator need to go. The AI even admits "mathematical reasoning isn't my core strength" while trying to handle 2+2. That's like hiring a chef who can't boil water but promises to write you a thesis on the thermodynamics of pasta cooking. The escalation from "streamlined OS with AI integration" to "we deleted your apps and replaced them with a chatbot that hallucinates math" perfectly captures every developer's nightmare about over-engineered solutions. Sometimes you just need a calculator, not a probabilistic language model with an inferiority complex about arithmetic.

We Don't Just Create We Innovate

Webdev Security Programming Frontend Cloud

7 days ago 214.3K views 0 shares

When your product manager asks for "innovative OAuth options" and you take it as a personal challenge. Sure, Google and GitHub are fine, but have you considered logging in with a potato ? Or better yet, your credit card details because security is just a social construct, right? Nothing screams "enterprise-ready SaaS" quite like "Login with Beef Caldereta" or "Login with your mom." The dev who built this either has the best sense of humor or completely gave up on life halfway through the sprint. "Login with Settings" is particularly inspired—why authenticate users when you can just... authenticate the concept of configuration itself? My personal favorite is "Login with Form 137"—a Filipino school document. Because nothing says seamless user experience like requiring academic records from elementary school. The fingerprint option looks downright boring in comparison.

I Guess It's Cheaper To Give Away Games? Their Business Makes No Sense To Me

Gamedev Programming Frontend

1 month ago 239.5K views 0 shares

I Guess It's Cheaper To Give Away Games? Their Business Makes No Sense To Me

Epic Games out here playing 4D chess with their launcher. They'll throw millions at free AAA games to get you hooked on their platform, but ask them to implement a shopping cart or cloud saves? Nah, that's too expensive apparently. It's the classic startup playbook: burn investor cash on user acquisition while the actual product experience stays in beta for years. Why fix the UX when you can just buy user loyalty with free copies of GTA V? Their launcher still feels like an Electron app someone built during a weekend hackathon, but hey, at least the free games library is chef's kiss. Product managers everywhere are taking notes: features that cost dev time and improve user experience? Hard pass. Throwing money at marketing stunts that bleed cash? Real stuff right there.

Password

Security Webdev Frontend Backend

1 month ago 218.8K views 0 shares

So you're telling me my password needs 20 characters, uppercase, lowercase, a number, special characters, a kanji, a hieroglyph, the 100th digit of pi, AND the first codon of my DNA... but sure, let me just click "Sign up with Google" instead. Security theater at its finest. They make you jump through hoops like you're protecting nuclear launch codes when you're just trying to sign up for a random SaaS tool you'll forget about in two weeks. Meanwhile, they'll probably store it in plaintext anyway. The real kicker? That "Sign up with Google" button that makes all those requirements completely pointless. Why even bother with the password field at this point?

Someone Needs To Do Better

Frontend Webdev Programming

4 months ago 166.7K views 1 shares

The classic "desire path" phenomenon strikes again! While designers meticulously crafted that beautiful tiled walkway with perfect right angles, users said "nope" and blazed their own dirt trail straight to their destination. It's the physical manifestation of what happens when you spend weeks building a sophisticated UI with 17 different options, only for users to desperately search for the "skip this nonsense" button. The dirt path is basically a giant middle finger to your architecture diagrams.

Inside Me There Are Two Wolves: UX Edition

Databases Programming Frontend Backend

5 months ago 262.8K views 2 shares

Inside Me There Are Two Wolves: UX Edition

The eternal UX battle raging in every developer's soul. One side wants to build intuitive interfaces that your grandmother could navigate. The other side thinks users should suffer through raw SQL queries because "it builds character." Meanwhile, the product manager is crying in the corner while users are submitting support tickets asking what "SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue > 0" means.

Ultimate Random Password Generator

Security Webdev Programming Debugging Frontend

5 months ago 208.8K views 0 shares

When your password requirements include "must contain at least one character floating in the void of space." Who needs fancy password generators when you can just smash your keyboard while having an existential crisis? This is basically what happens when security experts say "make it random" and developers take it literally . Good luck remembering which cosmic 'X' you clicked on during account creation. Password hint: "It's that one letter... you know... somewhere in the universe."

The Unholy Trinity: Frontend, Backend, And The Designer

Frontend Webdev Javascript Programming Backend

9 months ago 307.6K views 0 shares

The Unholy Trinity: Frontend, Backend, And The Designer

The eternal frontend vs backend war continues! Frontend devs claim their job is harder while backend devs silently judge them. Then suddenly, the UX designer enters the chat and everyone runs for their lives. Nothing says "I've made a terrible career choice" quite like trying to center a div while simultaneously satisfying the designer who just had another "brilliant" idea involving parallax scrolling and microinteractions that "shouldn't be too hard to implement." The circle of blame is complete!

The User Will Know How To Use It

Frontend Webdev Agile Programming Testing

9 months ago 200.8K views 1 shares

Developer: "The interface is super intuitive." Meanwhile, the user is trying to enter the doghouse through the roof because nobody bothered with a user manual or tooltips. Happens every sprint when UX design is an afterthought and the PM is breathing down your neck about deadlines. The real intuitive interface was the friends we confused along the way.

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