/r/badUIbattles

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Welcome to r/badUIbattles! This community is for intentionally bad UI design!

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What do I submit?

  • A video, gif, or link of your UI in action

Can I share the UI/source code in the comments?

  • Yes, please do. It’s fun to play with your projects. Please leave the source code as a git service (or similar service) link

RULES

  • Be kind. We’re here to have fun
  • No racism, sexism, or other kind of discrimination will be tolerated.
  • All posts must be a video/gif submission for an intentionally bad UI design or a request for an intentionally bad UI

/r/badUIbattles

238,902 Subscribers

250

The strangest date picker in production

20 Comments
2025/01/31
09:50 UTC

28

easy number selector for the lazy

2 Comments
2025/01/31
02:47 UTC

277

Can’t register because username portion of email ends with an underscore 😖

They have crazy validation for the email, but don’t bother to check that February doesn’t have 31 days 😒

33 Comments
2025/01/30
15:26 UTC

655

Separate power on and off button

26 Comments
2025/01/30
08:48 UTC

286

When they really want you to save the changes

26 Comments
2025/01/28
16:07 UTC

234

Captcha but its changing direction every time

R/middlefingeruibattes

15 Comments
2025/01/28
14:17 UTC

1,847

Captcha but there is 1 million images

r/BaduiBattes

39 Comments
2025/01/25
17:25 UTC

158

Search but you have to do 20 questions

17 Comments
2025/01/24
22:10 UTC

427

Captcha but you have 0.1 seconds to see the images

Dont ask about the spelling since this is r/badUIbattles also thanks to u/Varth919 said to accuse that your a bot which makes it even worse!

34 Comments
2025/01/24
14:46 UTC

118

Captcha but it never loads

11 Comments
2025/01/23
17:12 UTC

3,805

When a developer only knows dropdowns

96 Comments
2025/01/21
16:31 UTC

214

Sound and music settings but dumb goat doesn't like noise

6 Comments
2025/01/18
15:49 UTC

173

Asked to create a baseline design before starting a course

13 Comments
2025/01/17
20:57 UTC

148

Posted this elsewhere a while ago and forgot about it before the rules went back to normal. I'll let the video speak for itself

7 Comments
2025/01/17
03:14 UTC

170

Eaton UPS Tracking: You are currently Opted-in, check this box to Opt-out.

6 Comments
2025/01/16
13:26 UTC

636

2048 as a Choose Your Own Adventure

11 Comments
2025/01/15
21:38 UTC

106

Just got Edge, somebody thought this was a great idea.

7 Comments
2025/01/15
16:59 UTC

1,755

Tier List, but with physics

11 Comments
2025/01/15
10:26 UTC

51

Enter password to exit

I made a game for the Fox Hollow Game Jam 3 in which you have to enter a password to exit. Watch full gameplay livestream at https://www.youtube.com/live/1_fFYoIv6Mg?si=zEErNehNNm-RocVp&t=50m30s

4 Comments
2025/01/13
09:53 UTC

453

Login successful.

5 Comments
2025/01/13
05:51 UTC

680

made for a 48hr game jam where your health is your resolution

6 Comments
2025/01/10
01:48 UTC

152

Number spinner for 12 digit Input

10 Comments
2025/01/08
19:29 UTC

371

Weather app but you have to do it manually

4 Comments
2025/01/08
18:42 UTC

3,135

I created the world's safest form

49 Comments
2025/01/06
19:20 UTC

191

I made this login page

8 Comments
2025/01/05
21:15 UTC

1,071

What if change the usual volume slider to this

18 Comments
2025/01/05
11:13 UTC

772

How I would redesign reddit

21 Comments
2025/01/04
23:27 UTC

3,829

I added a popup every 10 seconds to my website, but they only show if you use a Chromium browser

136 Comments
2025/01/02
16:58 UTC

335

An international clock, but the time zone is secret for privacy reasons...

17 Comments
2025/01/02
13:23 UTC

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