I came across a UI glitch today in my Uber app. At first glance it appears to be a preposterous oversight, the s in Favourites has been orphaned!

I live in Australia, where we closely follow British English spelling - meaning it’s “Favourites” and not “Favorites”. In the world of UI/UX, it’s common to use localisation dictionaries to map strings to locale-appropriate versions. I suspect some UI designer carefully crafted this screen for US English and mapped over to AU English, accidentally committing a tiny typographic crime.

There’s a fantastic site literally called grumpy.website that aggregates many such UI/UX whoopsies. I’d definitely recommend checking it out!