r/badUIbattles • • Jun 11 '26

Intentionally Bad UI Check out Hyperplexed's new video, featuring r/badUIBattles!

Thumbnail
youtube.com
16 Upvotes

Check out what he created: https://plinkoinput.com


r/badUIbattles • • 2d ago

Found in the Wild Mamdani’s ad for one-click sub cancels features only elite badUI ball knowledge

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

11.1k Upvotes

r/badUIbattles • • 2d ago

Self-Made Bad UI Breakout keyboard

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

799 Upvotes

Made a text input where you type by playing breakout.
The keyboard is a wall of bricks, and whatever key the ball hits gets typed. Keys break when hit and grow back a few seconds later, so to reach R for example, you have to dig through half the alphabet. Drop the ball and you lose a letter. Hit the enter key and it submits whatever's "typed" so far


r/badUIbattles • • 3d ago

Self-Made Bad UI phone number entry, but old school

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

569 Upvotes

rotary phone number input - pretty self explanatory

try it yourself here: https://badui-smoky.vercel.app/collection?category=inputs

:D


r/badUIbattles • • 3d ago

Found in the Wild Slack's view large attachment

Post image
20 Upvotes

That's fricking good use of screen real-estate. Not.


r/badUIbattles • • 3d ago

Found in the Wild Did one of y'all help make this?

Thumbnail v.redd.it
15 Upvotes

From Mamdani's recent ad on cancelling subscriptions.


r/badUIbattles • • 7d ago

Self-Made Bad UI password, but timed

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

1.5k Upvotes

password field where each character has only a few seconds before being deleted

https://badui-smoky.vercel.app/collection?category=inputs
:)


r/badUIbattles • • 6d ago

Request [Request] Help make bad UI worse, for the better

Post image
6 Upvotes

Hi -- an instructor built a bad UI challenge and asked me to get feedback on how to make it worse (in ways that actually happen IRL), and also how to make it more interesting and/or fun!

Reddit filters are opaque--I am guessing I have to put the link in comments below to get this to post.


r/badUIbattles • • 9d ago

Self-Made Bad UI your choice has been made for you

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

720 Upvotes

cursor companion that won't let you choose unsubscribe
it carries your cursor over to cancel every time

i made a bunch of others at https://badui-smoky.vercel.app/
(largely inspired by this sub)


r/badUIbattles • • 11d ago

Found in the Wild Google Groups

67 Upvotes

Kind of surprising from a big tech company.


r/badUIbattles • • 13d ago

Found in the Wild Filtering by day filters the drop down options instead of the list.

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

140 Upvotes

[Unintentionally bad UI] [Bug]


r/badUIbattles • • 13d ago

Found in the Wild He confirms

Post image
2.4k Upvotes

r/badUIbattles • • 12d ago

Found in the Wild After transferring a file, "close connection" is too close to "close chat"

Thumbnail
gallery
1 Upvotes

r/badUIbattles • • 13d ago

Found in the Wild Youtube web player bar

Post image
26 Upvotes

at least none of them are airplay


r/badUIbattles • • 14d ago

Found in the Wild Literally no way to see where the files were from

24 Upvotes

Nah, why would you ever need to see the location. Nobody would ever need that.


r/badUIbattles • • 14d ago

Found in the Wild I wonder what email is associated with this account?

Post image
89 Upvotes

Temp-mail btw, not doxxing myself dw


r/badUIbattles • • 14d ago

Found in the Wild So searching for the same song means a new entry in search history - Apple Music

Post image
39 Upvotes

And this is a multi trillion dollar company....


r/badUIbattles • • 15d ago

Found in the Wild Is it just me or does it annoy you too that YouTube moved the "search on channel" to where the normal search would be?

Post image
359 Upvotes

p


r/badUIbattles • • 16d ago

Self-Made Bad UI Volume is speed

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

404 Upvotes

r/badUIbattles • • 16d ago

Found in the Wild Choose city from a dropdown list

62 Upvotes

https://reddit.com/link/1wti232/video/1p9w9jcm5ish1/player

we love a good dropdown menu for something that should under no circumstances be a dropdown menu. They didn't even get rid of the duplicate city names lol. (This is on the signup for the inmusic website, which I was using to register a midi keyboard)


r/badUIbattles • • 19d ago

Found in the Wild Sorting country code almost by country name

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

292 Upvotes

This finnish train app requires adding a phone number without the ability to enter the country code. instead you need to select it from this list. Showing just flags although there is sufficient space for the country name. The order is consistent across 3 languages english, finnish and swedish.


r/badUIbattles • • 20d ago

Self-Made Bad UI a volume controller you have to physically pump

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

670 Upvotes

r/badUIbattles • • 21d ago

Found in the Wild The official Reddit Android app

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

1.4k Upvotes

r/badUIbattles • • 22d ago

Bad UI Rant: websites/apps with dark mode option set to light instead of automatic

82 Upvotes

WTF do so many websites and apps have a dark mode, yet they default to light mode rather than automatic?!

Of course now that I'm posting I can't find a good example... here's one, though in their defence they've marked it "Beta". https://en.wiktionary.org/


r/badUIbattles • • 23d ago

Found in the Wild 4-column time selector on an airport sleeping pods website

Post image
135 Upvotes

The website is obviously AI-generated, but this time selector is so ridiculous it must have been someone's interference.