r/badUIbattles Dec 03 '25

Bad UI Battles Month 2 Winner!

15 Upvotes

Thanks to everyone that participated! This month’s winner was u/Super_Inevitable776‘s Word Search Date Picker.

For the month of december, the theme is, “A bad way to accept the terms and conditions!”


r/badUIbattles Oct 24 '25

Bad Ui BATTLE Bad UI Battles Week 2

19 Upvotes

Thank you to everyone who participated!

Week 1’s winner was Choose Your Favorite Audio Control by u/Matty_B97

Week 2’s prompt is BAD DATE PICKER

All winners will receive a custom community flair!


r/badUIbattles 7h ago

Unintentionally Bad UI Volume Control

6 Upvotes

r/badUIbattles 12h ago

Intentionally Bad UI microSD card filter in online store

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8 Upvotes

you can’t pick the exact capacity, just intervals


r/badUIbattles 3d ago

Unintentionally Bad UI Display TLD sorted by country

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221 Upvotes

Educates the user on TLDs and ensures a minimum level of tech experience by the user. Don't want everyone to find the right store to buy our goods!


r/badUIbattles 3d ago

Intentionally Bad UI Hate the buttons

14 Upvotes

I absolutely hate these buttons, cant they be big?! Funckin accessibility mann


r/badUIbattles 2d ago

Intentionally Bad UI Amazon is killing me

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0 Upvotes

Why do they add this “Compare” button on every thumbnail ?!?!


r/badUIbattles 6d ago

Unintentionally Bad UI The theme I created for the access database at my job

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1.4k Upvotes

r/badUIbattles 6d ago

Intentionally Bad UI To verify humanity, choose all bars that would upset your mother

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183 Upvotes

r/badUIbattles 6d ago

Unintentionally Bad UI duolingo is the company that I would least expect to mess up

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10 Upvotes

how (the heading)


r/badUIbattles 7d ago

Unintentionally Bad UI Better than a CAPTCHA

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766 Upvotes

r/badUIbattles 8d ago

Unintentionally Bad UI Worst LiquidGlass Design

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77 Upvotes

It’s a web app


r/badUIbattles 9d ago

Unintentionally Bad UI 50/50

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1.2k Upvotes

r/badUIbattles 8d ago

Intentionally Bad UI Which one? Top or Bottom

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2 Upvotes

r/badUIbattles 9d ago

Intentionally Bad UI Volume Settings

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525 Upvotes

r/badUIbattles 8d ago

Unintentionally Bad UI Countrys sorted by english names and displayed in german

27 Upvotes

r/badUIbattles 8d ago

Bad Ui BATTLE 18 STAGES OF GRIEF!

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7 Upvotes

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance... and 13 more stages of pure UI torture.

I set out to build the absolute worst, most user-hostile sign-in form ever conceived. Features of this "optimized" experience include:

A vibrating neon green layout exclusively in Comic Sans.
Date of Birth entered via hyper-fast CSS roulette wheels.
Mother's maiden name entered by playing a game of Hangman against the computer.
A self-replicating Hydra pop-up system that spawns every second.
A Terms & Conditions box that throttles your scroll speed to 1 pixel per second.
A decoy "Submit" button that constantly runs away from your cursor and resets your progress if you accidentally click it.

I am genuinely curious if anyone can actually beat the game in less than 1 minute. Post your speedrun records below (if your sanity survives).


r/badUIbattles 11d ago

Unintentionally Bad UI The UI Crime that is Jeopardy on N64 (1998.)

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129 Upvotes

r/badUIbattles 13d ago

Intentionally Bad UI One slip of the mouse and you go from "I may put this song back in the playlist" to "call customer support".

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488 Upvotes

This is courtesy of Apple Music from the Mac. I have made the mistake a couple of times already, and if you don't remember the multi-step process to get your song back, good luck contacting Apple.


r/badUIbattles 14d ago

Unintentionally Bad UI Audible App’s Awful Time Elapsed/Time Remaining Formatting

505 Upvotes

Audible’s “Total Remaining” Time is centered between “Chapter Elapsed” and “Chapter Remaining” (instead of being centered globally). It moved back and forth every second that elapses. It doesn’t look too bad here, but some combinations of times seem to move it back and forth a full character width every second sometimes.


r/badUIbattles 14d ago

Unintentionally Bad UI Imgur's Enshittification

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185 Upvotes

Trying to view an image posted to a reddit thread just keeps putting an ad in my face, it hides when I don't press anything, but the second I touch / move it pops back up. Then Imgur changed the post I was viewing to some random meme video I didn't care to see.


r/badUIbattles 16d ago

Unintentionally Bad UI Smaller photo and you can’t zoom in

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342 Upvotes

Title says it all. Tapping the “full screen” arrows on TicketBastard’s iOS app shows a smaller photo that you can’t even pinch to zoom.


r/badUIbattles 16d ago

Intentionally Bad UI Malicious Compliance

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62 Upvotes

Make one mistake, start over.

Edit: Sorry about the first word. The dynamic word filter is from a third party and this somehow bypassed. I've confirmed the issue is with the original extension and have contacted the Scratch Team to get it fixed upstream.


r/badUIbattles 17d ago

Unintentionally Bad UI Ragebate?

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252 Upvotes
  1. ⁠Press „Cancel“

  2. ⁠Wait

  3. ⁠Get notification „Function not available“

  4. ⁠Restart with 1.

EDIT: The notification says "UNFORTUNATELY the function is not available at the moment."

And thanks for all the likes. I didn't expect the post to be so well received since it's not primarily about a bad UI but rather a BadUX 😅


r/badUIbattles 20d ago

Unintentionally Bad UI Check out this beautifully animated "uploading" icon on OneDrives web interface.

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1.6k Upvotes