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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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Marketing should always be OPT-IN by default, but these extra steps to opt out is truly asshole design.

Oh, and on the opt-out confirmation screen, you get two options: Yes or No. The button colour for "yes" is white, and the “no” button matches the “save” button on the previous screen, so it's easy to accidentally cancel the opt-out. Double-asshole design!

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[–] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

As a developer this seems like a lot of extra work. I would assume that this was a supervisor's idea.

But I wouldn't necessarily consider giving the customer every possible option a bad choice. Giving customers the ability to fine tune their email notifications is really a bonus feature.

However, this is a horrible design choice to display 3 pages of multiple options. It's an asshole design.

It would be pretty easy to group them into a drop down list where multiples in that category can be selected or deselected with a couple of toggles.

I would assume this was some genius executive decision, but there's a very small chance it was a stupid design choice. Regardless the designer will always be blamed.

[–] JustMy2c@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

This is not a supervisor,it's the Marketing director... Believe me this is 1000000% intentional.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

All I wanted as an "opt out of all" option and that's that. This was done on purpose, no doubt. They also had a redesign of the app many months ago, which made is incredibly hard to use because of the color scheme. I can imagine some people with accessibility issues are simply not able to use the app now.

[–] DampCanary@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] thistledown@rblind.com 3 points 11 months ago

If only I lived in the EU!