Most fun are the infinite scroll pages with a footer.
Comment on Scrollbars are becoming a problem
Madrigal@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And just straight up broken by idiocy like infinite scroll.
zerofk@lemm.ee 7 months ago
_number8_@lemmy.world 7 months ago
links that are only modal floater windows drive me insane too. this isn’t anything! make a website!
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Hey, it’s difficult to figure out how to present large amounts of information in a usable fashion. So let’s just NOT EVEN FUCKING BOTHER and just put everything into a gigantically long list instead.
qaz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s not difficult, this method encourages “doomscrolling” because the user doesn’t actively decide to go to the next page.
The Nielsen Norman Group observes that “infinite scrolling minimizes interaction costs and increases user engagement.” Infinite scroll keeps users engaged and on the page because the page never ends: there is always something more to see, no wait to see it, and very few interactions.
zeddiq@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I would imagine the same designer who implements infinite scroll would also design bad scrollbars
Madrigal@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I recently had to talk a designer out of implementing a “webpage progress indicator” that was a thin horizontal bar across the top of the page that filled in as you progressed through the content.
I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social 7 months ago
A few pages have those. What don't you like about them?
Jesus_666@feddit.de 7 months ago
They are bad replicas of school bars. Except you can’t use these to scroll the page and they use horizontal progress to express vertical progress. Everything they do could be done more effectively by having a visible scroll bar.
Turun@feddit.de 7 months ago
I like it for articles. It shows progress through the text, not down the page, which are two different metrics which can differ wildly.