I personally hate rounded corners and shadows added everywhere. Makes most things look crappy and smudged.
White space.
So many UIs in my education programs and my work as a teacher just fucking love to leave huge piles of unused space and hide the options I am looking for in a drop down menu off a drop down menu.
Use the space. Give me buttons. Take options out of menus in menus in some absurd, backwards attempt at achieving “minimalism”, because you don’t understand what the word means, and make a UI that minimizes the time between when I load the thing, and when I get to what I am here for.
Lemmy is guilty of this too. I have a giant 4K monitor, why is all the content squashed into a teeny tiny sub-1000 pixel column in the middle of a sea of white? There is no reason I should ever have to scroll on a 4K screen to see a standard Lemmy homepage. Old Reddit got this right (same with mlmym) but default Lemmy UI needs the option to stretch. I have a userstyle installed that does this but it’s not perfect.
I think that everything is developed for phones, and then scaled to the desktop. I used to be you had to fight with a desktop site or app on a phone, now the opposite is true. (I honestly have no clue what I’m talking about, but from my experience it seems like that is the case.)
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That, or when there’s an article person x gets backlash for what they said, but they never say what the person said. I get it could be offensive, I get they would need to censor cuss words or slurs, but I should know what the person is accused of saying.
When you’re browsing a website and the text and buttons are so large you can see them from the neighbors house.
I use a bigger screen and higher resolution to fit more, not fit the same…
When I can’t middle mouse it right click to open a button in a new tab. It makes it harder to get back to the exact same spot, loaded how it was, to repeat the same task for the next button.
Single page apps are cool when they are done right, but such a huge hindrance when navigation is based on buttons and js.
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Hiding scrollbars
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Overlines instead of underlines. I’m looking at you Hulu Roku client!!
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Why does my PC need a flat UI? Gimme back my drop shadows.
Flat UIs with a few shadows in the right places can look geat
Return to aero. An upgraded windows 7 aero would be baller
XP was my favourite. Why yes, I do wear bifocals.
Spoilers in the titles, descriptions, and thumbnails of TV series. Looking at you, Plex.
It’s intentional, people like stories more when they already know the ending and plot twists. That’s why most series put the twists in the episode titles.
This is less a design choice and more the reality of package-based architecture, but - menus that I have to wait before interacting.
I spent most of my life being able to enter clicks and hotkeys as fast as I want, because they would queue up and the app would resolve them in order. Now I can’t type too fast after pressing the Windows Start button, because the start menu needs time to load before it can handle KEYPRESSES. Tapping Windows key followed by “Discord” will search for “iscord” or something if I type full speed.
It feels like every modern app is optimized for a slow person browsing one-handed on a phone.
They assume all windows users only have one hand free at all times
Jup. And then you have to catch yourself before selecting because the content you are seeing are about to be switched with web results in a second…
And then, as you wait for the program to load, because you are already on a roll you switch to another window and continue working. But the program that is loading and updating and showing fancy launch animations keep stealing the focus over and over instead of staying in the background at least until its done.
Being effective in Windows is difficult.
It’s so MADDENING
there is an even worse case for that. CTRL + F in a browser and directly start typing while you’re in a webpage/webapp with hotkeys shortcuts. I end up marking posts/emails as spam, deleting them from my view, start replying or whatever action they’ve assigned in a single key press.
The equipment wheel on games. Metal gear solid did it best
I always liked the way Crysis did it. Hold down the middle mouse button and drag your mouse towards the option you want.
I feel like The Last of Us did it well. Maybe because there are so few weapons to choose from.
Not necessarily UI but the overuse of javascript on most websites. It makes browsing the web on low power and old devices a nightmare.
“Mobile first” wich results in overly large buttons and font sizes and empty space on desktop.
That’s not mobile first, it’s mobile only. Pretty much half of my web design course was the professor ranting about designs that don’t adapt to the device they are being viewed on, and how to do that right.
Sites that push clickable buttons down whilst they’re loading, causing you to misclick.
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The removal of borders on buttons. I don’t know how many times I’ve been using a piece of software and haven’t realized for a long while that some icon is actually a clickable thing and not just some UI decoration or something.
The removal of text in favor of icons. I hate having to memorize what all your icons mean in your app. Please just make text unless it’s something insanely obvious. It’s even worse when they neglect to put tool tips to tell you what the icon is supposed to mean
I teach IT for seniors (basically a class room full of your Nan asking how her phone works) and I 100% agree with both of your points.
For experienced users, a lack of distinct buttons, and the use of icons only has the potential to slow you down.
For new users, learners, and people with cognitive or visual impairment these features make websites and apps boarderline In-usable.
It’s very hard to teach people how to use a computer when I must first teach them an endless codex of icons and symbols, and train them to mouse over anything and everything in case it’s a button.
Like wise, companies like Google need to stop being cute with confirmation buttons that say “got it” or “I’m in”. Stick to basics like “okay” and “agree”, because a lot of IT students in community education are non-English speaking, so indirect buttons like this are even more confusing. And for those of us who are fluent in English, we’re often scanning a page for specific text, and we’re even less likely to recognise a button is a button if the text on it is something that has never traditionally been put on a button.
This exactly is what I hate most about eclipse. I do something and suddenly there’s an icon on every single file of my project, and everything stops working. Now instead of googling an error I have to search “eclipse orange star icon”. Worst of all is that they reuse icons for different errors. I absolutely hate it.
Infinite scrolling. Sometimes I want things to end. It’s fine if I have to click “more” but I want to know when I’ve reached the “end”.
Also many apps/sites forget where I am it I leave, so if I leave and then go back I’m in the middle of a mess.
(I’m fine for it to be an option, I personally don’t like it but I don’t care if folks who like it keep it.)
Pornhub ftw
Layout shifts. You know the ones where you go to click a button and an ad appears at thst exact moment, so now you have to close that garbage, and try again.
Done only with intention these days, Im pretty sure.
