this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2026
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Poor designs resulting from incompetence. This covers unintentional artifacts. (Intentionally malicious/anomalious designs belong in c/assholedesign)
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Why does it snow on that website? That's unpleasant.
Anyway. Yeah, a lot of modern UI stuff seems bad. I can only assume idiots are in charge everywhere now.
haha you can turn the snow off at the top, I guess holiday spirit and all that
I think, a big part of it is that people are now generally used to computers, so user interfaces don't have to be as intuitive anymore. A crappy interface won't directly affect your sales anymore, so corporations will naturally invest less money into it and may choose looks/branding over usability.
Having said that, that they took their perfectly fine icon implementation and made it worse, that necessarily involved an idiot in charge. A non-idiot would've just left it as-is, at no cost at all.
The irony is amazing. What terrible design.
If you're on desktop, you should try the dark mode on that webpage.
...Point is, he's well aware that it's horrendous. These are joke features.