Flickr: almost certainly quite possibly a shining example of how not to do UX.

Integrity. That's a thing most UX is sorely lacking. Consider how when you post an ad to craigslist you get a message saying something like, "Thanks for posting, we really appreciate it" but then if you are trying to post more than one thing you can get the dreaded, "you are posting too fast, try again later" which seems to happen to me after like 4 postings which is hardly enough, and I am not botting this, I am doing this all manually by hand, so I don't see how I can be doing it too fast, really. The kicker is that some other things I am posting afterwards go through OK, but the one thing that said "too fast" is now somehow stuck always always always giving me that result, so it seems like I can never post that one at all. Pretty much seeming utterly crappy random illogical unfriendly unuseful punishing sad broken lame dumb backasswards terrible UX. I mean, if you ask me.

It is so "awesome" that the GIMP on Ubuntu 14.04 running X11 Unity LightDM (I guess, I don't really know how to tell, I am just looking in the results of "ps aux") when I tell it to load a bunch of files and then -- you know, because this is supposed to be a system that supports multitasking of things -- try to go browse the web that every time GIMP starts loading a new file it forces itself to the front of the desktop stack.

I have tried various "teach kids to program" systems over the years. Frankly none have been impressive to me. I guess maybe kids are more able to put up with broken UX than I am. Unfortunately my son already has shown the ability to recognize bad UX, which means he is doomed to live a live of living user hell like me. I just want to hit the lottery so I can sponsor things done well as a response to all the drek out there.

There are two kinds of people in the world. The kind that think when using a scroll bar on a 'desktop' app, clicking above or below the 'thumb' should move one page towards were you clicked; vs. the kind that think the thumb should jump all the way to where you clicked.

The former are correct. The latter are wrong. (If you ask me.)

Another thing I would like to teach people is that moving things out from under me is annoying as all heck. Android OS does it. Firefox does it. Ghostery does it. Seems like Every Bloody Freaking Thing does it. Why are the folks who make these tools so apparently desperate to make my user experience so completely and utterly horrible? I wonder if they could have done any worse if they had somehow designed the system to purposefully watch me and make sure that just as I am about to click/touch on something and then move it in a premediated fashion so that the wrong widget gets my input. Unfathomable. Do these people not use these products? Ever?

The US Social Security web site UX continues to just impress and amaze. Ok, not. Including the TEXT MESSAGES ALL IN UPPER CASE and the "extra security features" that apparently aren't really required and/or depend on physical paperwork I haven't gotten or have long since lost. Yay.