Have you ever found something really badly designed? Something which obscurity of its functions makes it hard to understand its use? Something almost unusable to a point it would drive you mad using it too often? Perhaps, a fool's design? Then you have come to the right place. Post your findings here and help making the world a saner place.
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Steven W
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2013-09-01 05:31 »

I'm sure most of you know what I'm talking about, but in case you don't I couldn't say it any better than this:

http://brandonoxendine.com/writing/why- ... -its-fixed

...I'm not sure what kind of device you're reading this article on, but chances are you don't have an endless amount of processing power. Say you have 100 photos, animated GIFs, or videos in your "scroll history." These kind of assets all stacked up on a single page can slow down any upstanding browser, no matter the power of the CPU. And I'm not so sure browser crashes are good for user experience.

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2013-09-02 10:31 »

Haha good one, you beat me to it. I was going to post a thread about this moronic trend of endless scrolling. :crazy:
Here's another sticky situation you might find yourself in: scroll, scroll, scroll, click interesting post, read, watch, look . oops, bad move. Click back in your browser, start over at the top, cue the "Fuuuuuu-" meme.
ANY endless scrolling without a working back function is moronic! :mrgreen:

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2013-12-04 01:06 »

Can't forget having a footer on a website you can never access if it keeps scrolling.

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2013-12-04 03:35 »

Bren, I think I know what you're talking about, but want to make sure. Do you mean a page that looks like the text/images go further down than what you can see, but you can't scroll to see them?

I've seen a few those.

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2013-12-04 04:01 »

Oh, nevermind Bren I know what you mean now.

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