November 25, 2025
Pick a date? Pick a fight
Bad UX World Cup 2025
Perfectly awful Date Picker wins, commenters spill horror stories
TLDR: Dalia won the Bad UX World Cup with a purposely painful date picker that still works. Comments erupted with misclick confessions and real-world grievances—from Spotify’s mobile to the federal eJuror site and Power Apps—cheering absurd entries like picking dates from pi and debating what counts as “usable” pain.
The world’s meanest design contest crowned Dalia and her “Perfect Date Picker,” a fantastically awful way to choose a date that still technically works. The final is on YouTube. The challenge: build the worst date picker imaginable—no special tools required, just chaos—so long as you could eventually pick the day.
The comments became the real show. shellwizard lobbied to add Spotify’s mobile app to the Hall of Shame, calling out endless taps and lost controls. darknavi reported the site itself sabotaged them: they tried to watch the video but a pop-up nudged them into the wrong link—meta fail! oatsandsugar celebrated absurd genius: the “choose your date by selecting a substring of pi” entry had folks wheezing. Then came the trauma dump: mberning swore the federal “eJuror” page is the worst thing online; Foobar8568 simply declared, “Anything built with Microsoft Power Apps,” and dropped the mic. The vibe? Half roast, half group therapy, all comedy.
Drama brewed over what counts as “bad but usable.” Some cheered creative pain; others argued real-world apps already win the Bad UX trophy daily. Either way, Dalia’s victory sparked a cathartic flood of memes, rants, and misclick confessions—proof that terrible interfaces unite the internet for once.
Key Points
- •Dalia won the Bad UX World Cup 2025 with the “Perfect Date Picker.”
- •The challenge was to build an intentionally bad-UX date picker.
- •The date picker had to still technically allow selection of the desired date.
- •Participants could use any technology or web framework; Nordcraft was not required.
- •Submissions had to be available via a publicly accessible URL, and the final can be watched on YouTube.