That I am craving back to simpler default settings and make the “auto-assistance” optional. And I have large fingers.
The Voyager app is imo a great example of a feature-rich, modern UI that still works intuitively
Todays touchscreen UI's are so forcefed with slide-options, widgets, AI assistants, popup UI's and auto- correct/translate...
Submitted 15 hours ago by Flemmy@lemm.ee to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 11 hours ago
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 10 hours ago
Some internet websites are unusable due to clutter. Especially on mobile. Such as fandom.com and belfastlive.com
Scrollone@feddit.it 10 hours ago
If you use Android, install Firefox, add the uBlock Origin plugin and your experience will instantly become better.
But it’s super sad that we need to resort to ad blockers to have a decent web experience.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 5 hours ago
Thankfully, most major communities now are using alternatives to fandom, like minecraft.wiki and nookipedia.com
7uWqKj@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
UI’s = something that belongs to a UI UIs = more than one UI
sxan@midwest.social 11 hours ago
Reactive UIs are so horrible. It sounds great, in theory, and I believe there might be a way to do them well. They do address the infinitely nested submenu problem. But - especially on mobile, as you say - having UI controls change is fraught.
On the desktop, it’s horrible when I user has to constantly search for functions because the buttons and menus are constantly changing with small context changes. I’ve observed even power users hunting for an operation because the button bar is constantly re-arranging itself. I’ll never forgive MS for introducing that awful feature.
And on mobile, it’s worse, because widgets change as you’re using it and you lose control of the process, or UI elements disappear or move as you’re trying to click on them.
UI designers are trying to address the complexity paradox: either you constrain user options, or it’s impossible to prevent many functions from being hidden in nested option trees - whether pages or menus - where users struggle to find them.
I think the “search” function is the best solution; assistants are, in most cases, the worst.
My current pet peeve is the trend in launchers to change the pinned app bar contents on Android with commonly used apps, so that you’re never quite certain which set of apps are going to appear, and in which order. I always turn that off and pin the apps I want: stop re-arranging my shit!
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
You nailed it. Nothing is more infuriating than a UI element moving as soon as you go to tap it and you now miss tap something else. I echo stop re-arranging my shit!!
And009@lemmynsfw.com 9 hours ago
That thing with rearranging apps aren’t building consistent expectations. Leads me to believe it’s a dark pattern.
sxan@midwest.social 29 minutes ago
Yeah, maybe. I see it in 3rd party OSS launchers, too, though, and it does tend to pop up whatever I’ve most recently launched, which is almost never useful.
It’s horrible UX, whatever the motivation.