I just accidentally clicked the “clear all” on the browser URL and wished that it was a bit harder to click but was still there. If it took three clicks to make happen, its still useful in most circumstances but would drastically drop the mistaken clicks
Anyway, what are your unpopular UI opinions?
Modal dialogs. Making it impossible to move the window or reference something else in the same interface.
Toasts on android. No idea where the toasts came from and no way to look up what the toast said after it disappears.
Ah yeah, don’t you love f-droid’s impossible to read 5-line toasts that randomly appear when something in the background fails?
Unpopular because most people don’t notice at all, not because they disagree:
Bring back ellipsis to signal a new dialog instead of a complete action. E.g., a button “Save…” opens a dialog where you want to save, whereas a button “Save” saves it immediately
For every UI app that runs commands in the background, Instead of a “Doing XYZ. Please Wait”, I want the logs of the commands being run. Not just the commands themselves, but their verbose outputs too. I want it ALL on display.
I want to know what the software I am using is doing to my computer. I dont want black box software on my PC.
I like chunkier scrollbars. Fuck the tiny disappearing scrollbars where you need to mouse over… somewhere… to maybe be graced with its presence, only for it to be 1px wide for some reason.
Also fuck the endless scroll, especially when you already know what you’re looking for is on page 4 because you had to reload the page for some reason but the infinite scroll didn’t save your position and you have to go down (without an actual scrollbar) only to “load more” 3 times until you’re (maybe) on page 4.A related peeve of mine is stateless URLs. When backend engineers built UIs they were terrible in a lot of ways but the URL would often reflect the state of the UI so you could refresh and get back to the same view. I think web frameworks and people specialising as frontend engineers helped kill this being something that was added as you developed
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Maybe popular among users but somehow not popular among devs?
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If it doesn’t need JavaScript, it shouldn’t have JavaScript.
If it doesn’t need dynamic styling, it shouldn’t have dynamic styling (especially if it makes other elements move around or become occluded).
If it doesn’t need images, it shouldn’t have images. When it does need images, they should be in an appropriate format and minimum useful filesize.
It shouldn’t have audio. It doesn’t need audio, and should not have it.
This is the most boring movie I ever watched.
It was a very faithful adaptation of the book, though.
Scroll bars are way too fucking thin now. When I have an app on one monitor, and try to scroll it, I’m battling the move to the next monitor with the teensy tiny scrollbar.
I’m even someone that knows how to use the mouse wheel and page down keys. It still has its place and so many refuse to acknowledge that. Sometimes I can’t even tell where on the page I am because the scrollbar activated its Octocamo.
Even worse are the scrollbars that are hidden until your mouse is over to of it.
Mouse over for anything needs to die.
What’s even worse is when everytime you happen to move the mouse you get popups you didn’t want blocking what you are trying to see.
Cough cough… gmail
The hamburger button is an abomination, we need the proper menus back
Unpopular opinion: I like the hamburger button. Easy to find at a glance, and I don’t have to guess which sub-menu the settings are in. Now, if you have a hamburger AND 3 dots… 🤬🤬🤬
Gmail is the best (worst) example of this. They literally have EVERY possible icon for “settings” on the page at once.
There’s a hamburger button. There’s a three dots button. There’s a NINE DOTS BUTTON. There’s a cog. There’s a slider icon. And you click your profile picture for “manage your account.”
- If it can be done without a touch screen DO NOT use a touch screen. And if you use physical buttons, they should have tactile feedback
- Toggles are just more ambiguous over-designed checkboxes
I also thought toggles were unnecessary, but then I read something that changed my mind.
Toggles have an immediate effect, whereas checkboxes don’t.
For example, a light/dark mode setting. You could use a checkbox, but users have become used to the above behaviour, and so a toggle may be more appropriate.
Checkboxes, therefore, are more of a form element.
Personally, I’d still be fine with just checkboxes, but that design intention is something I hadn’t known but makes sense after I heard it
