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What if the goal was to make the worst possible UI — on purpose? That was the brief for BAD UI BATTLE 2.0, a one-day design hackathon where good taste was strictly forbidden. I leaned in hard: misaligned buttons, illegible color combos, mystery navigation, and interactions that actively fought the user. The worse it was, the better I was doing.
It sounds like a joke, but it's genuinely one of the most design-revealing exercises I've done. Breaking every rule forces you to understand exactly why those rules exist. Accessibility, hierarchy, affordance — you feel their absence immediately when you're the one destroying them.
The gallery is live if you want to experience the chaos firsthand. Proceed with low expectations and a high tolerance for visual suffering.