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.
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Masonry layout.
TUI is better than GUI
Every modern design trend sucks. Overly minimalistic/simplistic UI harms usability and actively makes users dumber and helpless.
I don't want rounded corners, transparency, shadows, animations, modern icons etc...
Give me boring panels with clear boundaries between conceptual sections, explicit text on buttons, and no theming. I don't care if it's a fugly Win95 grey, I'd rather it be usable than flashy.
Tooltips that open immediately when a mouse hovers over it.
Tooltips should require being clicked. Eve Online annoys the shit out of me whenever I do a fresh install because tooltips load too fast they get in the way of actually doing things. Want to right click? Nahhhh your mouse is in the tooltip now.
Having ambiguous toggle labels.
Don't have a window named something like "Disable Features" and then the options be a toggle for "Cookies" or "Carry weight"
Does turning the toggle ON turn the feature OFF? Or do I need to turn the toggle to OFF to turn the feature OFF? Even worse when some are already in the off position.
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There's way too much "pop-up ui" infecting PC from mobile. I want a solid-state UI. Don't make me hover over anything to show a pop up, or swipe, or stupid shit like that.
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Stop making these shitty disappearing scrollbars that are way too thin! Scrollbars are the single most important UI element on the screen. They need to be LARGE and they need to STAY VISIBLE AT ALL TIMES
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WORDS. Stop using symbols. Use words.
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Remove all the little icons and give me a menu bar.
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Stop using CSS for desktop software. CSS belongs on the web.
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Windows 95 has the best UI. Just go back to that. It's better than everything that came after.
I don't like it when websites don't allow me to enter emojis in text boxes (like when naming or tagging things in browser games). It's not even that I do it a lot, I just don't like arbitrary restrictions like that. I know my fellow web devs always get nervous about them causing technical issues, but realistically that really doesn't happen with any modern tech stacks. I've been including emoji input in the test cases for any text input components I program and there's never been any real issue that would warrant not allowing them at all. Even the notorious 10-character 👨🏻❤️💋👨🏻 really doesn't cause problems, you just have to account for the length of it.