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A slightly related note is that UI's are trending "dumber". More and more apps and websites I see are adding all this padding around things creating wasted spac

A slightly related note is that UI's are trending "dumber". More and more apps and websites I see are adding all this padding around things creating wasted space. Once upon a time, someone figured out cramping everything together looked bad so they started adding more and more padding. Now it feels like I'm being treated like an infant who couldn't handle that many words on the screen and needs these playful distracting colors everywhere. It seems like the power users that prefer denser interfaces are being ignored. And now, the users are starting to catch on that even though at first glance these apps are prettier they reduce productivity by showing less information, reducing features that confuse users, hiding buttons away, and having non-discoverable gestures. I would love to see this dataset aimed at the switching of UIs to material design. A fair number of my apps have made the switch, and I've always been disappointed by the results.

lcw 10y ago
It's funny I feel the same way. For instance, there has been a huge movement in EComm web applications to make checkouts more of a wizard flow. I always liked it when everything was on one page and I could just tab through forms, and not click on 10 next buttons. I get that it lowers the amount of customer service issues with checkout because it can baby people through the process. They are missing the other side of the problem though, which is, it most definitely slows down the checkout process for people that know what they are doing. Also with the advent of auto fill utils it seems like a backwards approach or at least something that we will reverse once people become more familiar with auto fill capabilities.