What's This All About? 🔊

Welcome to Can You Make It Worse? — the design competition where breaking every UX rule isn't just allowed, it's MANDATORY!

Your mission is to take a seemingly simple UI element—the humble volume controller—and twist it into the most frustrating, inconvenient, and unintuitive creation imaginable. The only rule? It still has to change the volume... somehow!

Think you can design a slider that only works when you move the mouse backwards? A mute button that hides after you click it? A sound interface that plays an annoying jingle with every adjustment? This is your chance to shine (in a terrible, terrible way)!

How It Works 🔧

• Step 1: You'll receive a UI element to redesign. This edition's challenge: a volume controller!
• Step 2: Create the most frustratingly terrible version you can imagine
• Step 3: Make sure it's technically functional (it has to actually work!)
• Step 4: Submit your masterpiece of chaos
• Step 5: Watch as people vote on your delightfully terrible creation

Why Do This? 🤔

Sometimes the best way to understand what makes good design is to deliberately create bad design. By breaking every rule in the book, you'll gain a deeper understanding of why those rules exist in the first place.

Plus, it's fun, creative, and you might just win some cash for your crimes against UX (and eardrums)!