I prefer a start/taskbar on the right side of the screen. I'm right handed and it just feels natural since square monitors became widescreen. I can't think of 1 os or desktop manager that defaults to this, and windows 11 requires 3rd party software to even move it there.
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Pretty much the only reason this is unpopular is because we're conditioned to expect it at the top or bottom. Having it on the side is a huge advantage for real estate, especially now that we don't really have text on window tab thingies anymore.
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I really like minimalism. These new simplified logos for things look much better in my opinion. Shame pretty much everything has become enshittified along with the logo changes.
Brimg back double-clicking on the top left corner of a program to close it. Actually, bring back the top bar and the file menu while you're at it. And for software that opens tabs, allow the user to position the tabs bar on the bottom or side of the screen.
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I think the default styling of browsers is pretty neat in a lot of cases and I hate animations. Layouts, spacing and grouping are the things that actually provide value.
Instead of a fancy popup with a cart contents the button should just say "Adding 1 item..." and "Added" for 2 seconds.
I hate infinite scrolls, especially when there's stuff like opening hours at the bottom of the page. Just give me a "Show more" button and preload the content.
My dream world would be that styling would only be about layout and the rest is up to the user's theme.
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Force computer literacy test on every boot/wake of computer. Then we can finally stop wasting eons on buttons forms, positions and colours
Huh. I wonder why we don't already do that. We accept UI tutorials for individual apps but somehow the OS for desktop and mobile gets a pass.
I quit playing Death Stranding nearly entirely because the UI was driving me crazy. It's been a while, so I don't remember what it was, exactly, but there is a lot of menu navigation and reading. I'll probably try again at some point.
No way to skip the animations maybe? There was like a 3 second animation for everything, it really interrupted the flow for me.
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C and V are too close on the keyboard for CTRL-C to be copy & CTRL-V paste. I fuck this up at least a couple times a week.
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Windows edges windows or whatever they call it. I can’t tell where one window top edge ends if it’s overlapped with another.