this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2024
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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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Purposefully deceitful toggle switch colours. Am I saving my preference to receive none, or to receive all? Found on clevertap.com's mailing list service.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I would say it's fairly reasonable to assume that the selected option is the blue one? If not, that's definitely deceitful. If it is the blue one, I don't think it's purposefully deceitful, just badly designed. Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence, yadda yadda

[–] Lemminary 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yep. I've had arguments on the bird site about intuitive UI/UX. It felt like I was talking to a wall. Some devs are just that clueless.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Only some? I’m constantly arguing with developers of enterprise software and they usually don’t get it. The color of a button to remove an item? Green! They like green …