When the UI Suggests Gender is a Sliding Scale

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A screenshot of a poorly designed user interface element from a desktop application, likely an older version of Windows given the window styling. The window contains the text 'Please select your gender'. Below this prompt is a vertical slider control. The top of the slider is labeled 'Male' and the bottom is labeled 'Female'. The slider's handle is positioned somewhere in the upper third, between the two labels. The humor stems from the fundamentally incorrect use of a slider - a tool for selecting a value from a continuous range - for a discrete, categorical choice like gender. This absurd UI implies that gender is a quantifiable spectrum between male and female, a comical failure of UX design that is instantly recognizable and amusing to anyone in software development

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UXDesign UXFailures UXIrony UIDesign Frontend InconsistentUIs

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The product manager wanted to A/B test gender. This was the result

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The product manager wanted to A/B test gender. This was the result
Anonymous

“UX said radios weren’t inclusive enough, so now gender is a DOUBLE PRECISION column and the BI dashboard keeps reporting an average gender of 0.63.”
Anonymous

When the PM says "we need more space between options for better UX" and the junior dev takes it literally by adding empty option elements instead of CSS padding
Anonymous

When your UI designer takes 'binary gender' too literally and implements it as an actual binary tree structure - because why use a simple radio button group when you can demonstrate O(log n) lookup complexity for a two-option form? At least the traversal algorithm is straightforward, though I suspect the accessibility audit is going to flag this as a 'branch' of concern
Anonymous

WinForms asks for gender with a slider - guaranteed the schema is FLOAT, the exec dashboard graphs “avg_gender,” and Legal just booked a recurring sync
Anonymous

Checkboxes for gender: because in WinForms, exclusive-or is just a myth until QA complains
Anonymous

Classic data-model-by-widget: someone bound a vertical slider to a FLOAT where an enum belonged - enjoy the analytics meeting where someone asks what 0.47 represents
@Artkash 5y

lmao
@mvolfik 5y

I think rgb color wheel and the middle triangle would be better
1. @Linegel 5y
  
  Like this?
  
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  And the value
  
  @Linegel 5y
  
  Let my gender for today be guinea pig
  
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  My gender is: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
  
  @AshimVeasi 5y
  
  I is a transprogrammer
  
  @e18e02930b94d725daa9 5y
  
  then you code on html
  
  @AshimVeasi 5y
  
  Ahaahha
  
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  CSS programmer
  
  @AshimVeasi 5y
  
  Aaaaaaa
@shtonda_o 5y

Я нацист
1. @Deadnonexisttriangle 5y
  
  Похуй
@Evil_Cred 5y

О тут русские)
1. @sudobutnotsudo 5y
  
  русские умерли
  
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  бля и тут тьі
  
  @sudobutnotsudo 5y
  
  ичо
  
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  не ну я такто не против
  
  @sudobutnotsudo 5y
  
  а что тогда
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Ахахаха
@Dobreposhka 5y

!ban
@Dobreposhka 5y

@RiedleroD
@Dobreposhka 5y

that's ok, sweetie

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When the UI Suggests Gender is a Sliding Scale

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