We are three guys who notice annoying and bad UX solutions everywhere. So we decided to write about it.
(The engine is written in Clojure, btw https://github.com/tonsky/grumpy)
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- Grumpy Website: Showcase of Bad UI via raymii 1 year ago | 17 points | 3 comments
Suggestion for the website itself: Don’t have the auto-load happen when you first scroll down to the bottom of the page. Let the user initiate that action so that the footer is still accessible. The Instagram website is a good example of this design pattern. Otherwise, really interesting stuff, thanks for sharing!
Thanks!
This is somewhat of a meta-joke we have — autoload and unreachable footer are clear anti-patterns, yet we force them ourselves. But you’re right, we should eventually switch to initiating the autoload by user.
Or make the footer stick to the bottom of the browser frame.
ugh please no, floating elements are terrible and only limit screen real estate on small devices.
I think floating navigation can make sense in some contexts since having navigation easily accessible can be important. A footer is not important to have always accessible though, so I would agree that it probably isn’t the best choice here.
For me, it loads the rest of the page before Safari can even finish the bounce-back animation, so it just cuts it off in the middle.
Huge props on writing the engine from scratch! I really like the random phrase ticker at the top, it’s a nice touch. A couple of nitpicks:
Overall, you guys make a lot of really good points. Keep it up!