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by bunderbunder 15 days ago
Yes. Just this evening I had to help my mom. She was convinced a web form she needed to fill out was broken.

The problem was a required input control was so heavily styled that it was genuinely difficult to recognize it as interactive. Possibly impossible for my mom, whose eyes aren’t what they used to be.

And, in place of traditional validation design language, they decided to just make the submit button invisible until the input validated.

The worst part is, someone is probably quite proud of the extra day or two they spent making sure that UI was broken.