What are some aspects of UI/UX seen in modern websites that really grind your gears?
What are some aspects of UI/UX seen in modern websites that really grind your gears?
I wish to understand what elements or aspects of the design of modern websites the end users are annoyed from. Though you are free to express your personal opinions, it would be even more insightful if you could provide objective criticism and suggestions for alternative implementations so that I may incorporate the same in my current and future projects to make them as user friendly as possible.
Some criticisms I have encountered a while back include:
- Switches being basically checkboxes with more ambiguous active state
- Scrolling animations that prohibit user from linearly scrolling through the page
Make sure that the opinion is not
- Related to business/legal matters e.g. Cookie consent notices, ad banners etc.
- Too vague e.g. Poor website layout
- Highlighting objectively bad practices e.g. Lack of accessibility features
I recognise I could have followed a design system for this question, but I want to understand the situation from the perspective of the end users to see if they have a differing view on what a convenient user experience should be like.
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- websites that fuck with scrolling in any way
- autoplaying videos
- sticky videos
- developer focused websites without darkmode
- popups when you move your cursor out of the window of the website
- unprompted popups
- links that break middle mouse button clicks for opening in a new tab
- burger menus on an otherwise rather empty website, or pure content site on desktop
- gigantic text, where 2 rows take up my entire screen, especially bad on larger monitors
- that relatively new
sign in with googlepopup on the top right on some websites - low defaults for
amount per pageselectors in product lists or similar, the default should depend on how many products fit on my screen, not some arbitrary value - slow loading content, or other requests that take more than ~100ms. With a modern internet connection this shouldn't happen
- (not cookie banners in general, but) overly large cookie banners, also the
legitimate interesttoggle which, most of the time, is enabled by default (you might have interest in my data, but its definitely not legitimate); or cookie banners which block you from reading the site before clicking anything, (I know this is related to legal stuff it is not legally necessary to make invasive cookie banners)
Other people have already mentioned some of these as well
I hate having to toggle off legitimate interests off vendors too. The very premise of this option has been anti-consumer from the beginning.
I hate when a website allows me to deselect corporate partners who have access to my data, but rather than deselecting all of them it offers me the chance to manually select 600 or 800 one at a time.