Bad usability slider is badly usable

Thanks for pointing out the distressing irony / hypocrisy of the bad usability of the slider on this very site, everyone. We messed up – here’s a video of the slider as it was (now fixed).

80 individuals independently identified issues. Will you?

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Ryanair madness pt1

Ryanair madness pt.1

A recent booking though Ryanair’s website revealed a treasure trove of frustration, so much so that one post will not suffice. Here, we can see the obligatory opt-out of travel insurance, buried randomly in a select dropdown.

151 individuals independently identified issues. Will you?

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Two different printer errors from Mac OS X. One reads «Title Message», the other «EMess_13203 DMess_13203»

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Many things can go wrong when trying to print something. Sometimes Mac OS X runs out of things to say.

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Won’t someone please tell me what to do?

Our collective heads are exploding trying to decipher what is going on in this mind-melting log in/out game. What did you do @mariosuave?

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Confused Spanish lift

Lifts seem to be an easy target here at B.U. but this example from Barcelona was too good to pass up. Tip o’ the hat to @nanacaetano.

92 people thought this was all kinds of wrong. And you?

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89 days, of course!

Facebook likes to assume – in this case that you know the date range can be no longer than precisely 89 days. The default is 4 weeks, however there is nothing stopping you choosing as big a range as you like. Thanks to @OKBlogg for spotting this one.

64 souls slid the shoddy slider. Slide the slider, see scores!

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