A museum of controls nobody should ship.
The registry is inspired by the tradition of bad UI contests. Every exhibit here is original, and every one of them works.
What’s in it
44 exhibits in seven kinds of bad:
- Input torture 10
The long way to enter something short. - Physics-based 6
The value obeys gravity, springs or a good throw. - Dark patterns 5
The interface wants something from you. Satire, and harmless: nothing here can charge, subscribe or keep you. - Needless gamification 7
Earn the right to fill in a field. - Misleading affordance 7
It looks like one thing and does another. - Accessibility nightmare 5
Everything the guidelines warn about, on purpose and labelled as a joke. The normal control is always one button away. - Infinite confirmation 4
Are you sure you’re sure.
Each one is a real control that sets a real value. You can set the volume by throwing it. It takes a while. Each has a card saying what kind of bad it is, how hard it is to use, and when it was filed.
The rules it keeps
- Only the exhibit is bad. The header, the registry, the navigation and the exhibit card are meant to be plain and accessible.
- There is always a way out. Every exhibit has a visible Skip / give me a normal one button that opens an ordinary control and sets the same value. Keyboard and screen-reader users are never stuck with the joke.
- Reduced motion is respected. If your device asks for less motion, nothing drifts, wobbles or swings on its own.
- Nothing leaves the page. The password, phone, email and name exhibits keep what you type in the page and forget it when you leave. The site sets no cookies, stores nothing and sends nothing. Don’t type real details anyway; that’s just good practice.
- The dark patterns are satire. There is no newsletter, no free trial and no checkout. Nothing here can charge, subscribe or keep you.
- No look-alikes. Nothing here imitates a real bank, brand or login page.
Made by machine
Everything here was designed, written and built with AI, the bad ideas included. A few exhibits borrow from the rest of the slopped.site world: a commission form for the Slopwright, a checkout in the showroom from Backrooms, and a slider that staples itself, because the stapler is the most employed object in the codex.