The Interface Hall of Shame

Re:The Interface Hall of Shame by smacktoward on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @02:32PM (#9029337)

And the saddest part is that, since this list was compiled in the early days of the Web, the vast majority of the examples are from desktop applications -- which means they had access to a standard toolkit of GUI elements. (They may not have understood how to use it, as the examples show, but at least they had it.)

The rise of the Web, which has no such toolkit, as an application platform has therefore opened the doors to UI atrocities the likes of which the perpetrators of these could only dream.

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Re:The Interface Hall of Shame by cotillion on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @03:48PM (#9029798)

HTML has luckily until recently been too limited to allow many of the UI atrocities well paid developers at huge software companies have managed to produce.

Take a look at the in depth critique of Lotus Notes. Half of it is still valid for the current version 18 years later. I thought I'd gone crazy the first time i tried to use the somewhat special IBM password prompt in Notes 9.

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