How to Ruin a User Interface: Surprisingly Easy Ways to Screw Over Your Users
Thursday, Aug 15
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Room 102
Description
Sure, when your boss signed the expense form for you to attend this conference, they thought you’d be bringing back new ideas about BETTER ways to do stuff – but honestly, isn’t that a little boring? What if we mixed it up a bit and instead discussed all the ways to make your UIs WORSE?
From dark patterns to bad designs, there are tons of shockingly easy ways that you might be unknowingly making your website or app experience more difficult – or even painful – for your users. In this session, we’ll talk through some of the most common, so that you can avoid them in the future…or, you know, intentionally include them, if you’re evil. With great power comes great responsibility.
From dark patterns to bad designs, there are tons of shockingly easy ways that you might be unknowingly making your website or app experience more difficult – or even painful – for your users. In this session, we’ll talk through some of the most common, so that you can avoid them in the future…or, you know, intentionally include them, if you’re evil. With great power comes great responsibility.
