King Ghidorah Ranks Pagination, Load More, and Footer-Killing Infinite Scroll

Description

The three-headed dragon (King Ghidorah) meme template: two fierce, serious golden dragon heads and one derpy cross-eyed head with its tongue out. The title text reads 'LONG PAGE CONTENT DISPLAY STRATEGIES'. The left serious head is labeled 'PAGINATION', the center serious head is labeled '"LOAD MORE" BUTTON', and the goofy right head is labeled 'INFINITE SCROLL ON A PAGE WHOSE FOOTER HAS RELEVANT LINKS/INFO'. An imgflip.com watermark sits in the bottom-left corner. The meme mocks a notorious UX anti-pattern: implementing infinite scroll on pages that still have a footer containing important links, making the footer perpetually escape the user as new content keeps loading just before they can click it

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UXDesign WebDesignPrinciples Frontend UXFailures DarkPatternsInUX Antipattern UIDesign MemeFormats

Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick Infinite scroll with a footer is the frontend's Zeno's paradox: the contact link exists, you just can never reach it

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Infinite scroll with a footer is the frontend's Zeno's paradox: the contact link exists, you just can never reach it
Anonymous

The footer is eventually consistent, assuming the feed ever terminates.
@FunnyGuyU 6mo

Floating footer
@i_am_no_tree 6mo

All three is pagination actually
@Sun_Serega 6mo

I love the last one, it just has to not be on the main page
@NaNmber 6mo

we were about to follow the last path, but swr complexity made us abandon it in favor of pagination with buttons 🙂
@Nucradkillsrats 6mo

Ah yeas I have all three