It is appalling that someone got paid actual money to make this crime scene
This app MUST be rage bait. Or maybe it is performance art intended to make us reflect on the toxic reliance we all have with our phones. Maybe it is Comic-Con’s violent attempt to get us outside to touch some grass. It is a 1900s era Internet fever dream of a dystopian future. What it is not is a functional app.
“Why employ designers to make an app? Insanity. What do they know??”
This is what I imagine a bunch of executives cackled when the creation of this app was first discussed. They likely fist-bumped each other after hiring a blind monkey to build the app. After all, minus the banana money needed to keep the ape focused on banging its fists against the keyboard, it was more cash for their pockets.
“But won’t the con attendees notice that nothing makes sense?” piped up Sally from customer relations.
Sally was promptly fired.
“Why employ designers to make an app? Insanity. What do they know??”
This is what I imagine a bunch of executives cackled when the creation of this app was first discussed. They likely fist-bumped each other after hiring a blind monkey to build the app. After all, minus the banana money needed to keep the ape focused on banging its fists against the keyboard, it was more cash for their pockets.
“But won’t the con attendees notice that nothing makes sense?” piped up Sally from customer relations.
Sally was promptly fired.
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worst app
Not a very intuitive app, trying to navigate is a bad maze of errors!
How is the interface STILL this awful.
First off: yes, this app “functions” in that you can view the programming, search for things, create your own schedule, etc. But I’m sorry, in the year of our freaking lord 2026 you do not get credit for the absolute bare minimum!
I haven’t even spent five minutes in the updated app and I’m asking/yelling things like:
-which designer from 2011 did you time-warp in to continue pushing a semi-transparent schedule over a busy image?
-when I hit search, the search tips overlap the status bar of my phone. How are you not designing for a STATUS BAR? A feature of every mobile OS since…forever?!
-how many users correctly identify that the teeny tiny grid icon is showing a PATH (something I only identified after I zoomed in on a screenshot)? What’s wrong with familiar and recognizable iconography? What did the instantly-recognizable map pin icon do to you?
And the real question: how can a large and active creative organization, non-profit or not, justify this refusal to spend resources on an essential tool for con-goers?
Listen, Comic-Con. “Having an app” was all you needed 15 years ago. Today? Anything less than a polished, usable experience is inexcusable. And yet. Your navigation sucks. Your use of icons sucks. Your visual design sucks, and creates its own usability issues. Your filters are next to useless. Pay me and I’ll share a lot more gripes, but the good news is all of this is incredibly easy to fix because you’re not doing anything wild or novel. We have solved these problems.
Because right now? No designer I know at any experience level would hand this off to a dev. No day-one student in a UX program would think this is even adequate.
I help pay for your org to exist. Please spend some of that money to release a usable app designed in this decade.
I haven’t even spent five minutes in the updated app and I’m asking/yelling things like:
-which designer from 2011 did you time-warp in to continue pushing a semi-transparent schedule over a busy image?
-when I hit search, the search tips overlap the status bar of my phone. How are you not designing for a STATUS BAR? A feature of every mobile OS since…forever?!
-how many users correctly identify that the teeny tiny grid icon is showing a PATH (something I only identified after I zoomed in on a screenshot)? What’s wrong with familiar and recognizable iconography? What did the instantly-recognizable map pin icon do to you?
And the real question: how can a large and active creative organization, non-profit or not, justify this refusal to spend resources on an essential tool for con-goers?
Listen, Comic-Con. “Having an app” was all you needed 15 years ago. Today? Anything less than a polished, usable experience is inexcusable. And yet. Your navigation sucks. Your use of icons sucks. Your visual design sucks, and creates its own usability issues. Your filters are next to useless. Pay me and I’ll share a lot more gripes, but the good news is all of this is incredibly easy to fix because you’re not doing anything wild or novel. We have solved these problems.
Because right now? No designer I know at any experience level would hand this off to a dev. No day-one student in a UX program would think this is even adequate.
I help pay for your org to exist. Please spend some of that money to release a usable app designed in this decade.
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Oof
Man this looks like an iPhone app from 15 years ago. The interface is ugly and unintuitive, and the fix for that is to put weird tutorials up for every button you press. Why is the clipboard icon the rating for an event and the star the save button? I’m scrolling through the list of events and every time I stop a filter button sneaks up from the bottom. Why? There’s a ton of empty space at the top. So weird, not what I would expect from such a big event.
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Tragically Bad
No reason this app should be so bad. Forgets things you save. Unusably slow. Navigation doesn’t take you back to where you were. No sorting by rooms. Maps don’t link to programming.
