this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2024
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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.
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As a developer this seems like a lot of extra work. I would assume that this was a supervisor's idea.
But I wouldn't necessarily consider giving the customer every possible option a bad choice. Giving customers the ability to fine tune their email notifications is really a bonus feature.
However, this is a horrible design choice to display 3 pages of multiple options. It's an asshole design.
It would be pretty easy to group them into a drop down list where multiples in that category can be selected or deselected with a couple of toggles.
I would assume this was some genius executive decision, but there's a very small chance it was a stupid design choice. Regardless the designer will always be blamed.
All I wanted as an "opt out of all" option and that's that. This was done on purpose, no doubt. They also had a redesign of the app many months ago, which made is incredibly hard to use because of the color scheme. I can imagine some people with accessibility issues are simply not able to use the app now.
Thanks EU for enforcing opt-in regime which makes this obsolete.
https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/our-work/subjects/eprivacy-directive_en here
If only I lived in the EU!