Just because everyone can design a website, doesn’t mean everyone should design a website. Efficient UI design is as much an art as it is a science and even if a company has some unique idea or the great tech behind what they’re offering – if it’s built around some poorly designed UI, people are unlikely to use it. Or perhaps not, as places like Reddit somehow continue to thrive despite having arguably no UI design at all.
However, there is one design firm,
Every aspect of this “game” is designed to induce rage: like mislabelled buttons, complicated password rules, nearly impossible to close pop-up windows, slowly scrolling terms and conditions, and annoying CAPTCHA forms. Even if you’re a veteran internet user, chances are something here will trip you up and bring back symptoms of PTSD. Adding to the pressure, User Inyerface also has an enormous timer clocking how long it takes you to figure their interface out.
Ultimately, this game is a mere marketing ploy for the design company hoping to draw in people toward using their services. I think there is potential there for this to become a course for all web designers out there though so
Play it here. Just don’t blame us if you throw your PC out the window.
Last Updated: July 5, 2019
Pariah
July 5, 2019 at 08:43
To be fair, a lot of the time it’s the back-end devs who have to do front-end that fucks it up. That and lazy front-end devs. In both cases, a game like this won’t make them care.
Magoo
July 5, 2019 at 08:43
Which do you prefer? The front end or the back end? >.>
Pariah
July 5, 2019 at 08:43
A little of both. 😉
Original Heretic
July 5, 2019 at 09:26
Top end
Magoo
July 5, 2019 at 08:43
That’s awesome. xD
Admiral Chief Umbra
July 5, 2019 at 09:20
We should get @disqus_DZQkEkC9EG:disqus to review this game
Pariah
July 5, 2019 at 09:58
I tend to have much less of an aneurysm when it’s done on purpose, whether that be for satire or education or anything of the ilk. It’s when people are just dense or don’t see anything wrong with it that my blood vessels start to pop. See: back-end devs doing front-end.
Admiral Chief Umbra
July 5, 2019 at 10:04
DO A “LET’S PLAY VIDYA”!
Pariah
July 5, 2019 at 10:10
Already completed. Too easy.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5defb26bbe883e4cc5def97697d51cdc138ccbe92fadfca197f0b26302c7c18e.png
Admiral Chief Umbra
July 5, 2019 at 10:10
“YORE AWESIM”
Opportunity missed for final trollingz
Pariah
July 5, 2019 at 10:10
Well it’s about a shitty interface, not shitty grammar or spelling. I’ll admit, it took me a whole minute to find the password requirements, but that’s about the only part I got stuck during the process.
Gavin Mannion
July 5, 2019 at 10:10
Clicking select all again after unselecting all those checkboxes made me grumpy
Pariah
July 5, 2019 at 10:11
I just laughed when I saw that and deselected and then chose the 3 I wanted. I spent most of those 4 minutes laughing. I’ve genuinely seen and dealt with worse.
Geoffrey Tim
July 5, 2019 at 09:58
FUCK EVERY SINGLE THING ABOUT THIS
Gavin Mannion
July 5, 2019 at 10:04
I got to page 4, on my 5th attempt and then quit again… it´s so infuriating
Kervyn Cloete
July 5, 2019 at 10:04
I’m a very calm and relaxed guy. Ice water in my veins. And yet it took just 20 seconds of this before I wanted to take an axe to my laptop.
Admiral Chief Umbra
July 5, 2019 at 10:10
Was it axe-ing you two many questions?
Pariah
July 5, 2019 at 10:16
The genius behind this is that this would technically fulfill a brief. It has all the notices to let you know you’ve done something wrong. It has all the options and information you need. But NONE of it is intuitive and you really have to pay attention. It’s anti-UX, while still being 100% “on brief”. Really well done.
Yahtzee
July 5, 2019 at 08:58
Or, you can play the trial version of the game now by heading to telkoms website.
Admiral Chief Umbra
July 5, 2019 at 09:20
Telkom’s website is pre-alpha
Pariah
July 5, 2019 at 09:13
Or you can try hard mode and visit any of our government sites.
Admiral Chief Umbra
July 5, 2019 at 09:20
Try to print something to PDF on SARS (like company annual submission 14 pages)