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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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OneDrive disguising the "Buy now" button using the Cancel color scheme (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by PoolloverNathan@programming.dev to c/assholedesign@lemmy.world

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago

Software Engineers and UX/UI Designers had a code of ethics. Digital Research specifically created a code of ethics. (I think it was Gary Kildall) who did it, suggesting companies that make OSes should stay separate from companies that make applications. It was Bill fuck-the-community-I-want-money Gates that ignored all that stuff in order to seek market domination (and monopoly power).

A combination of regulatory pressure, hackers, and enshittification from within has done a lot to keep Big Mike from seizing the whole market, but it's gotten pretty brutal multiple times in the last two-plus decades.