N-gated Hacker News3d ago
✨🔍 Behold, the #StarFighter 16-Inch, a #laptop so cutting-edge it needs a GPS to navigate its own menu icons! 🤯 It's like Star Labs forgot what a coherent design is and just threw a keyboard at a website! 🚀💥
https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starfighter #TechReview #CuttingEdge #DesignFails #Innovation #HackerNews #ngated
StarFighter 16-inch

Exquisitely crafted exclusively for Linux; Delivering groundbreaking innovation in privacy and performance.

Star Labs®
Hacker NewsMar 20

The worst volume control UI in the world

https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world-60713dc86950

#HackerNews #worstVolumeControlUI #UXDesign #userExperience #designFails

The worst volume control UI in the world

A group of bored developers and designers has decided to start a thread on reddit to figure out who can come up with the worst volume…

Medium
N-gated Hacker NewsMar 20
🖍️💻 ALERT: Keith has #Opinions about colors, because apparently, #CSS can't handle "Too Much Color" without imploding into a rainbow puddle of failure. 🚨🤦‍♂️ The real masterpiece here is his #minifier test suite—because what the world really needed was a Rube Goldberg machine for proving that "precise enough" still means completely unnecessary. 🎨🤔
https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/too-much-color/ #Color #RubeGoldberg #DesignFails #HackerNews #ngated
Too Much Color

I spent too much time looking at too many colo(u)rs to try and optimise them for csskit. Here are some interesting findings.

Keith Cirkel
skuaFeb 24

This digital day clock has the very smooth input buttons on the back of the clock.
You get to see either the buttons or the display. [fume]
And I ain't even got peripheral neuralgia / numb fingers.
Inputting the correct tim & date is a yuck experience.

Hacked to increase touch sensations / useability.
Impossible for this to be specified when manufactured. /s
Dent put in centre button. Direction buttons slashed in direction.
#AssistiveDevices #DisabilityIndustry #DesignFails #DayClocks #Hacks

N-gated Hacker NewsNov 8
🤦‍♂️ Ah, the timeless art of taking every font on your computer and averaging them into one glorious monstrosity. No need for web searches or actual type design skills; just throw some #programming spaghetti at the wall and call it "generative typography." 🖥️✍️ Enjoy your perfectly mediocre Frankenstein font, if you dare! 🎨😂
http://iotic.com/averia/ #generativeTypography #fontDesign #humor #designFails #HackerNews #ngated
Avería – The Average Font

Hacker NewsOct 1, 2025

Drunk CSS

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/drunk-css/

#HackerNews #DrunkCSS #CSS #Humor #WebDevelopment #CodingFun #DesignFails

Drunk CSS

A decade ago, I was writing about how you should test your user interface on drunk people. It was a semi-serious idea. Some of your users will be drunk when using your app or website. If it is easy for them to use, then it should be easy for sober people to use. Of course, necking a few shots every time you update your website isn't great for your health - so is there another way? Click the "🥴 …

Terence Eden’s Blog
N-gated Hacker NewsSep 14, 2025
🎨📏 Behold, the revolutionary Two Slice font: Because reading shouldn't be enjoyable, it's now possible to squint at text that mimics microscopic ants! 🐜🔍 Perfect for masochists who consider 2px tall fonts a design "breakthrough." 🙄🎉
https://joefatula.com/twoslice.html #TwoSliceFont #designFails #readabilityAnts #masochism #typography #HackerNews #ngated
Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall

Textures & Backgrounds StoreAug 9, 2025
When you spend hours perfecting your 3D model, but the wood texture makes it look like a vintage video game. 🕹️ Who knew rendering could bring back the 90s nostalgia? #TextureTroubles #WoodTextures #DesignFails #3DModelingTips
Textures & Backgrounds StoreJun 28, 2025
1. When your stone texture looks more like a potato. 2. Trying to make stone walls smooth: it's a rock-solid challenge! 3. When your stone texture doesn't quite 'rock', but you roll with it. 4. Applying stone textures like they're Stone Age recipes: a pinch here, a dash there. 5. Staring too long at granite textures? You might just take them for granite! #TextureHumor #DesignFails #StoneTextures #GraphicTips
Show threadskuaMay 23, 2025

@jpnearl

Yes products and services have become very un-usable for an increasing proportion of the population.

Hidden controls, complex controls, hidden food packaging openings, food jar tops that need tools to lever open, the whole of IT (with a few exceptions), low audio quality phone calls, microscopic print on food packaging are just the ones that spring to mind.

Seems to be a de-couple between design and consumers.

#DesignFails #ConsumingIn2025 #APatternLanguage #ChristopherAlexander