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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.

I absolutely hate those scrolling number pickers, like on alarm apps. Just pop up the numpad and I can enter a time in 2-4 taps, not 2-3 coarse scrolls of minutes, a fine scroll to the minute I actually want, then repeat that process on the hours.

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

Colorblind people exist and should be able to use the site. At least, based on my real experience, this must be an unpopular opinion amongst UI folks glares

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.

• Stop removing the underline styling for links. It's not cool or sleek that you made things unintuitive to navigate by having the only indication be a slightly different text color, or a hover effect.
• I don't like emoji in text interface output. I don't need cute little sparkle graphics and yellow smiley faces and lightning bolts and rocket ships to tell me the operation was successful, to say nothing of environments where emoji aren't supported and it's just broken.
• Please stop trying to be cute or hip with your basic interface messaging. "We got you, we'll find those results you need. Just hang tight, OK?" "Oops, our bad, there was a little hiccup in the process..." It's unnecessary padding just like all the rounded corners everywhere. Exception if the entire app/site/whatever is specifically designed around being cute and friendly, but I see this all the time where it just feels out of place, disingenuous, and obnoxious.
• Custom fonts and nonstandard characters in usernames are an abomination. Show your personality and creativity in your graphical avatar and your profile, I'm happy to see it there!

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.

The hamburger button is an abomination, we need the proper menus back

Mobile phones have caused a dark age of UI design

The modern trend for "flat" UIs absolutely sucks. There is no separation between element layers, so you can't tell where one windows starts and another begins when they are overlapping.

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.

• 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

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 don't know if it's unpopular but I think the cookies should have a white list policy instead of a black list.

And in general I think that a UI has to take into account people with visual problems. "Everything is gray" is a shitty idea.

I prefer light mode.

Just be in a properly lit room. Open your window curtains. Don’t blast your display on max brightness. It’s actually easier on the eyes.

Every modern design trend sucks. Overly minimalistic/simplistic UI harms usability and actively makes users dumber and helpless.

I don't want rounded corners, transparency, shadows, animations, modern icons etc...

Give me boring panels with clear boundaries between conceptual sections, explicit text on buttons, and no theming. I don't care if it's a fugly Win95 grey, I'd rather it be usable than flashy.

Having ambiguous toggle labels should cause you to lose your job

Don't have a window named something like "Disable Features" and then the options be a toggle for "Cookies" or "Carry weight"

Does turning the toggle ON turn the feature OFF? Or do I need to turn the toggle to OFF to turn the feature OFF? Even worse when some are already in the off position.

I hate vertical tabs!

I don't know how unpopular this is - I've never asked anybody:

Phone-optimised UIs suck, even on phones. One of the first things I do on setting up a new phone is tick 'request desktop website' in the browser.