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?
There’s way too much “pop-up ui” infecting PC from mobile. I want a solid-state UI. Don’t make me hover over anything to show a pop up, or swipe, or stupid shit like that.
Stop making these shitty disappearing scrollbars that are way too thin! Scrollbars are the single most important UI element on the screen. They need to be LARGE and they need to STAY VISIBLE AT ALL TIMES
WORDS. Stop using symbols. Use words.
Remove all the little icons and give me a menu bar.
Stop using CSS for desktop software. CSS belongs on the web.
Windows 95 has the best UI. Just go back to that. It’s better than everything that came after.
These are both UI features that suck for dodgey rdp connections. The kind where you click and wait 10-30 seconds for the update. Windows has gotten egregious about these kinds of UI decisions making it very hard to make changes over a lousy RDP connection
I think I agree with most of the comments in this thread, but I feel like your #2 is actually an unpopular opinion! I don’t think I’ve interacted with a scrollbar in the past decade, and the only purpose is to see where on the page I am, which doesn’t feel very important. (something like a pdf viewer where that matters should have a proper page preview anyway)
So I don’t really need scrollbars at all, and I’m glad they aren’t adding visual clutter.
(although I’m pretty sure you should be able to force scrollbars to be visble, at least on browsers)