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I just accidentally clicked the "clear all" on the browser URL and wished that it was a bit harder to click but was still there. If it took three clicks to make happen, its still useful in most circumstances but would drastically drop the mistaken clicks

Anyway, what are your unpopular UI opinions?

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[โ€“] LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 23 points 12 hours ago (6 children)
  • If it can be done without a touch screen DO NOT use a touch screen. And if you use physical buttons, they should have tactile feedback
  • Toggles are just more ambiguous over-designed checkboxes

Toggles are strange, now that I think about them. They're one of the few things that have skewed more skeuomorphic over time. Or, In the Win95 era were we thinking about paper, with documents in folders on the desktop, and a check box you'd check with a pen makes sense there, where now we think of the computer as a device with switches to flip?

Either way, this is the aviator in me speaking but an on/off toggle switch should be longitudinal or vertical, with forward or up ALWAYS being ON. Toggles in UIs are pretty much always horizontal with right being ON.

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