I personally hate rounded corners and shadows added everywhere. Makes most things look crappy and smudged.
When marking something to copy and paste. You start marking the text and drag to the right. If you drag too far to the right, your highlighting goes away and everything to the left of where you started becomes highlighted. Why would anybody ever want that behaviour? It is exactly the opposite of what you are trying to do.
Oh yeah. Or trying to highlight something including text further down, you want to scroll it a little bit and suddenly it accelerates and you highlighted the wohle page.
Thin scrollbars. Why do I have to aim for a tiny area to click on a scroll bar? Other UI elements aren't that narrow.
no mouse wheel? or are you scrolling through huge pdfs a lot
Clicking and dragging on a scrollbar lets you rapidly scroll up or down. Or clicking like 3/4 of the way down takes you instantly there.
The left side gutter that, I fear, is a trend still in it's infancy.
Dear Microsoft: I'm never going to launch apps from within teams or outlook. Why they fuck would I, that's what your terrible OS is for. Stop it.
Don't forget Microsoft's whole "we're gonna pretend like we're integrating everything just so you can never find anything"... I work from home half the week but don't want to receive phone calls after-hours (because of course we had to fucking get rid of real phones and change to Teams). Oh they claim there's lots of scheduling options, but when you dig into it you find out you can't actually schedule anything in Teams, you have to go into Outlook. I'm on Linux, Outlook isn't an option even if I wanted to touch that steaming pile. So I go to the web version of Outlook only to find that no, despite their assurances, you cannot actually schedule your office hours to send phone calls straight to voicemail. That feature might come "soon" but considering half the time our staff launches Teams they get a blank page on private chats and have to keep restarting until they show up, I have a serious lack of faith that Microsoft could code up something useful for office hours.
tl;dr: Using "integration" as a buzzword to put options in unrelated and unused products, only to discover those features don't even work.
Fromt the top of my head:
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all kinds of pop-ups wanting to guide me through their software/website latest features, giving me pro-tips or recommendations I didn't ask for
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notifications about shit I didn't subscribe to
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a virtual assistant icon in the corner showing a message that it wants to help me or talk to me
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autoplaying videos (bonus points if it's a video unrelated to the article)
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cookies pop-ups
It's like the old saying (which made more sense back in the CRT days):
If I wanted your website to make noise, I'd lick my finger and drag it across the screen!
Yeah, my favorite is when a site tries to shame my adblock usage by telling me it can't play an unrelated and unsolicited video
uBlock has filters to block notifications, also for virtual assistant popups, notifications and other annoyances. You just need to enable them in the settings.
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On the desktop, a lot of programs have been removing and hiding capabilities to look more like tablets and phones. This sucks, as I'm using a desktop which has the room to show all the fiddly bits.
The tablet feel was what drove me away from Windows and then Gnome on Linux. Now I happily KDE.
I use Gnome and IMO it uses the space pretty efficiently, especially because it puts a lot of stuff in the title bar and doesn't really leave unnecessary unused space
I think this is because it’s more expensive and takes longer to build and maintain a desktop website, mobile website, and app.
If you design everything to work on mobile, you can reuse it as the desktop site. You can most likely reuse assets in the app as well.
Also, people are using their phones a lot more frequently than desktop/laptop, so mobile experience gets prioritized.
Ultra slim scrollbars that auto-hide on a traditional monitor with a mouse or trackball input device.
Fuck yes. Who the hell thought that was a good idea. Looking at you Steam.
I like the way it works in Gnome, where the scroll bar is very thin but gets thicker when you get near it
On touch centric UIs, it makes me absolutely insane when people have a button or something I might want to tap below a thing that has to be loaded and can be variable size, so I go for the button that does what I want and between my decision to touch it and my finger moving, the thing loads and I tap it instead.
Fuckin stop it. Make the thing that loads a static size or put the button above it. If your buttons jump all over the page after you initially display them, I hate you.
Anything overlaid on top of content, especially those chatbot bubbles.
Also, "No, thanks"/"Remind me later" options on popups where they should be "Fuck off and don't show this ever again".
Talking about overlays on top of content: Videoplayer overlays! Pops up every time the mouse move a pixel, darken the entire screen for some stupid reason, sometimes with some text or a huge play/pause icon, and sometimes just refuse to disappear until you've focused and unfocused the window again or done some other mystical ritual.
Dynamically expanding UI widgets that push other content down. Used by Google search for suggestions which always leads to misclick links. Portainer and cloudflare dashboard also does this.
Every single time. UI redrawing without user action is one of the worst UX antipatterns. It's being punished for being too fast, yet too slow to click it in the timeframe where there is content you want to click on.
The trend to make an ad link suddenly appear right where and when the user is likely to press.
And shucks, looks like the little x moved right when tried to click it to dismiss the ad and now you're on a shady website.
I’m surprised advertisers don’t have much of a problem with it. Because it just makes me fucking despise whatever website I was tricked into going to.
It would be like a sandwich shop hiring a guy to wear a sandwich costume and pass out flyers on their corner. Only, instead of just doing that, he forces you into the sandwich shop. Guaranteed I would be pissed and hate that place for life.
I hate any UI element that uses infantile language.
oh no sorry but windows is bwoken =(
Just give me the error code, I'm not a child.
Does non-pausable videos count? I can’t understand why apps like instagram, which exists to show pictures and videos, has the worst picture and video handling of all time. Can only magnify pictures by pinching and it only works while you’re still touching the screen. Can’t pause or restart a video. Want to show someone a video? You have to scroll to another post and then back to the video so it starts again.
I like the idea of instagram but the actual reality of it is utter, utter dogshitMinimizing to tray by default when you hit the x button.
Especially when there is no way to change the behavior.
Not really UI, but news websites reporting on a video of something happening. They never just show the God damn video. They have a video player at the top which will show a high school presentation format of what the highlights from the video are, usually overlayed with a soft-spoken person reading out the text.
But the actual video? If you're lucky, it's buried 75% of the way down the page in an embedded tweet. Most of the time it's fucking nowhere.
When you have a web page with only an input box. You can't do anything else on that page except input into the box and yet the cursor isn't automatically placed in the box! You have to put it there first.
