We've all had the experience of signing up for something on the internet and tearing our hair out trying to get through the process because they put so little effort into making it easy for the user. At a regular website, you'd just give up in frustration and never go to that site again, but bad interface is rampant at government websites where you have to get in somehow to do everything from getting health insurance to paying your utility bill. What if someone put all the complaints about bad user interface in one place so that you can drive yourself mad? Then no one would use it. But what if they made it a game?
User Inyerface is just such a game. You are challenged to register an account in the most difficult ways possible, and you have to figure out all its quirks yourself because you can't complain to a form. There's a help box, but that's hilariously bad, too. It's more like a puzzle, and it's really satisfying when you get all the way through. Oh yeah, and you're timed as well. It took me twenty-two minutes, but don't let that discourage you. I had a phone call while playing, and I sure didn't want to start over again just for a better time, and I certainly didn't want to play through a second time just to get a screenshot for this post. There's no need to use your real information in the game. User Inyerface can be described as amusing and annoying at the same time, because we know we will run into these poorly-designed components the next time we want to sign up for a state park membership or something. -via Metafilter
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