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?
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.If all you want is to read 5000 words of something you were looking for … just display those 5000 words and nothing else.
We don’t need graphics, pictures, images, blocking, ads, pop-ups, videos or any other suggestions … just give us the content, it’s all we want sometimes.
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- 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
Interesting idea, I’d never thought of that. It would almost change my mind if only different software respected that distinction. There are many forms using toggles and many option pages with checkboxes without a save button.
Your app / website is most likely not big enough to rely on icons instead of text for buttons. Same applies to most other unique UI choices.
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