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ProxCoquesyesterday at 9:32 PM1 replyview on HN

I know right? It's like interaction design came and went over a period of 30 years and now we're back to the beginning again.


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quackedyesterday at 11:42 PM

I spend a lot of time seething at how poorly modern software interaction is, and I've come to the belief that they basically solved most of the window-based GUI computing interactivity problems by around XP, and have just been gutting them since then.

My three most-hated modern trends

- Disappearing scroll bar with content that you have to scroll for

- Pills going across the top of the screen that are "most-used" filters instead of a real filtering menu

- Clickable text and non-clickable text appearing the same. I mean come on. Who the fuck is designing these things? That's the one I can't wrap my mind around. How can a self-respecting programmer put out a UI where the display and clickable elements look exactly the same? What are we doing man

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