Ars Technica:
Sometimes we take Web and user interface design for granted—that’s the point of User Inyerface, a hilariously and deliberately difficult-to-use website created to show just how much we rely on past habits and design conventions to interact with the Web and our digital devices.
The resulting website is a gauntlet of nearly impossible-to-parse interactions that are as funny as they are infuriating. In one case, the colors for the male and female selection options in a personal info form are reversed compared to expectations: the white-backgrounded one is the selection, while the blue-highlighted one is the one you’re not picking—and there’s no non-binary option, either, of course.
This is nuts. I couldn’t go past the first page for fear of being driven insane.
The whole thing is a recruiting tool for an agency called Bagaar. After finishing I clicked the link to their jobs page, and they list as one of their job requirements: “Flexibility is your middle name (no 9–5 mentality)”. Which, wow, that is garbage.
The abyss stared back at me.
I couldn’t get past the first page, period. Clearly a product of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation…
Hey buddy, if you don’t come in on Saturday, don’t bother coming in on Sunday.
That’s pretty hateful. They make a strong case for not ever being one of their clients.
At least the SCC manufactured things.