Overview
UX Anomalies was a platform for collecting unusual UX problems, broken flows and product inconsistencies from real digital products. It worked like an Instagram for UX oddities.
The project has been shut down, and uxanomalies.com now shows a shutdown notice. The source is public: the Next.js web app is in ux-anomalies-ui and the Go API in ux-anomalies-api.
Problem
The strange user experiences we run into in everyday products were hard to document in one place, in a clear and organized way.
Solution
The platform made it easy to share UX examples, discover them and make them visible through SEO-friendly pages. Users signed in, uploaded images of what they found, and liked and commented on each other's posts.
My Role
- Product idea and design direction
- Frontend development
- Backend and data layer development
- Deployment and production setup
Key Features
- UX sharing with image uploads
- Content discovery
- Likes and comments
- SEO-friendly public pages with sitemap support
Technical Highlights
- Next.js frontend
- Go backend
- Cloud Run
- Neon PostgreSQL and Google Cloud Storage
- Authentication and image uploads
- Public source: ux-anomalies-ui and ux-anomalies-api
Why It Matters
UX Anomalies covered the whole path from product idea to a live full-stack app, built around UX problems in real products.