Horrible Web Designs
On December 14 I hosted a 5,000 ETB web dev competition in Addis Ababa Science and Technology University (AASTU) for all batches. The theme of the competition was Horrible Design and contestants were expected to make the most difficult to use, hedious looking, unintuitive, user-unfriendly, time wasting abomination of a website... and they didn't fail me!
This was what I told the contestants
When I look at your websites I want to gag and feel immense pain in my soul. I want my eyes to be in agony looking at your designs. Are you good at UI/UX design? Well throw that out the window. Do you like making people's digital life easier? Well throw that out the window as well. Do you follow good design and interaction guidelines? Throw that out the window!! Infact when I look at your designs, I want it to make me throw MY computer out the window!! Enjoy causing pain on all of us and go crazy with your creativity. Competition starts now and ends in 3 days. Have fun. 🥳
Who Participated?
During the competition students from freshman year to the graduating classes, from Addis Ababa Science and Technology University (AASTU) and Addis Ababa University (AAU) to dropouts, from software engineering and computer science to chemical engineering and electromechanical departments joined the contest.
Requirements
- Must be an original design
- You can be in teams or alone
- Should be a single page website
- Should include multiple sections within the page
- You can use any framework or tool you're comfortable with
- Should have multiple interactive elements like forms, buttons, hover effects, scroll effects and so forth
- Should be hosted on either GitHub Pages, Vercel, Netlify or any other free hosting service.
Things to focus on
- Design horribleness
- Allow interaction but just agonizing
- Content should be visible, just visibly painful
- Non-conformity to standard design and UI/UX rules and trends
- Adding your twists to original popular webpage components.
Submission and Deadline
- Submission: Dec 17 12:00 local time.
- Deadline: Dec 17 Midnight 6:00 LT
⚠️ Warning and Usage
- Epileptic Warning
- Volume Up for Full Experience
- View on PC for full experience
- Enable Pop Ups and JavaScript
- Most components and contents on the websites are interactive, so hover everywhere, click on things and fill out forms
Here are the submissions...
Submission 1 - https://haileabt.github.io/pain
By Haileab Tesfaye & Ephrem Mandefro
Don't ask what the webpage is about bro!
Submission 2 - https://mesmerizing-ui-competition.vercel.app
I saw that it's hard to make a website the most hedious looking. I really loved the idea and it gave me time to think outside the real world work.
Submission 3 - https://dawit-sh.github.io/shit-post
By Dawit Sharon
I dare you to write your fullname and email and then submit!
Submission 4 - https://taupe-custard-3c38ab.netlify.app/
I tried my best to make it user friendly.
Submission 5 - https://horrible-site.vercel.app
Find your true love.
Submission 6 - https://annoying-website.vercel.app
The reason why I didn't center anything is not because I couldn't center a div, it's to make it more annoying! (*lies)
Submission 7 - https://aastu-comp.vercel.app
By Kemal siraj
After taking cigarette it's not that painful bro...so Please order!
Submission 8 - https://miki8370.github.io/comp_project.github.io
Fine by me :)
Submission 9 - https://serdesiyon123.github.io/Horrible
By Serdesiyon
Make sure to check it out and click every button.
Submission 10 - https://mikiyasfekadu.github.io/worst
I had fun not caring about the looks, not following the rules.
Submission 11 - https://doniverse.github.io/horrible-designs
By Doninx
Reload if it crashes, don't forget you can use CTRL + R, stay on there for more than 20 seconds.
Submission 12 - https://ui-vomit.netlify.app
I tried to build a bad shopping site but I didn't finish it yet.
Submission 13 - https://senagal.github.io/worstHtml
By SAGHWKD
Oh, give me a moment!
Submission 14 - https://shitty-design.vercel.app
It's a simple lovely clear birthday card generator.
- Submission Removed By The Author
Submission 15 - https://hnfsrj.github.io/Chaltulator
By Hnfsrj
Ugly calculator where you don't have a normal numpad but list of numbers from zero to 1000. And it is too dump to calculate.
Submission 16 - https://get-your-fiance-e.vercel.app
By Eyob2m
Mobile Irresponsive.
Submission 17 - https://horrible-101.vercel.app
By Nahom
Coolest Site?
Submission 18 - https://ugly-page-ayenewtarekegn18.vercel.app
Enjoy the footer it has a surprise :)
Submission 19 - https://duresaguye.github.io/horrable-web-site
By Duresa Guye
Make sure to check it out and click every button and enjoy it.
Submission 20 - http://makemesuffer.rf.gd
By Firaflash
Just leave already!
Submission 21 - https://abmuhu7.github.io
Try to submit your message. I will share my prize.
AND THAT WAS PAINFUL! I HOPE YOU HAD A VERY AGONIZING JOURNEY! YOU CAN REST NOW! THERE'S NO MORE HORROR! THANK YOU FOR READING!