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The best interfaces never hide anything and always separate the buttons off the workspace and into a box/dialogue of its own. I should never have to expand a tool or minor category and then also click "view more". I can forgive dropdown menus from the toolbar at the top but thats about it. Basically, I want less of this responsive design shit with the rounded buttons and minimal buttons or information garbage and I want more works-on-1920-1080-32inch-monitor shit with that 2000s vibe to it.

I quit playing Death Stranding nearly entirely because the UI was driving me crazy. It's been a while, so I don't remember what it was, exactly, but there is a lot of menu navigation and reading. I'll probably try again at some point.

applications should all look the same. no custom theming.

there should not be a way to skirt the window manager theming system. i decide what my windows look like and that should be what all windows look like. that way it's all uniform and easily parseable at a glance, not to mention a lot easier for accessibility tools to hook into. and for that matter, stop inventing new ways to present your application without doing a user study. we have years of user studies available showing what ui elements work well and what shapes they should be to be easily understood. just throwing something together because it looks cool and then shipping it like that should be a punishable offence.

• nordic theme is not a real dark theme
• fuck every curved edge
• the icons should never look the same, i dont care about your brandbuilding
• i hate minimalistic phones and launchers so much. how do you have the audicity to limit customisation? get out of my way, son.

Windows edges windows or whatever they call it. I can’t tell where one window top edge ends if it’s overlapped with another.

Rotary (Pie) menus rock and should be everywhere, not just controller games. I like Kando. I like keyboards too, but when I'm mousing around it lets me do so much without bothering to touch a keyboard.

I need keyboard shortcuts that actually work, and I hate large padding/whitespaces/circled borders that do nothing.. I like having grey-ish background instead of white. Seems like many people consider this "old fashioned" and hate it.

For desktop things should just fit well enough on 1280x1024. For mobile 720x1280 or some similar resolution.

C and V are too close on the keyboard for CTRL-C to be copy & CTRL-V paste. I fuck this up at least a couple times a week.

Mouse over is a bad interaction, except for maybe showing tooltips. You can't do it on a phone. You're going to create mouse tunnels (where the user accidentally mouses out and closes the menu). And yet I see them all the time.

Double click is kind of a bad interaction, too. A naive user looking at the device isn't going to Intuit "if I push this button twice rapidly something different will happen". There's no double right click or double dual click. Nor is there a triple click. It never should have become a standard interaction.

I like Lemmy's Mobile Web UI, and I don't really see a need for apps

and yes I use light mode, dark mode make me feel like I'm doing something illegal on the "dark web" lol, dark mode feels depressing to me for some reason

Dark mode, apparently.

Rounded corners everywhere. I mean, subtle rounded corners can look nice here and there, but they are not subtle and there are too much of them. Also, those capsule shaped buttons and text boxes. I hate them, they look so stupid.

I joined World of Warcraft during the Legion expansion at the behest of my friend. I'd known about WoW for a long time and how popular it was. So I was very, very surprised to find that it's UI was, frankly, utter fucking dogshit, that most all of the community modded it, and ony just fucking now is WoW finally trying to make some actual attempt to fix the shit themselves. And all of this pretty much fed into my opinion on WoW and many MMOs in general prior to true action MMOs: they are overrated, clunky crap, and I am astounded so many people put up with the shit rather than let it fall through the cracks and be left to rot, as it should. But then again, people still won't stop preordering games after so many turn out dogshit, so... people are just gonna be people I guess.