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Increasingly many sites are opting for overlay scrollbars that are exceedingly difficult to actually use. It's almost as if they don't want you to use the scrol

Increasingly many sites are opting for overlay scrollbars that are exceedingly difficult to actually use. It's almost as if they don't want you to use the scrollbar yet provide one for compliance. They are often very thin (just a few pixels) and coloured dark gray upon black background and won't expand to a bigger size until you successfully squint and hunt it down and precisely position the pointer over it.

keyringlight 6y ago
Contrast is issue I've found to be annoying, as though UI designers don't really want you to spot it easily and to show the information it conveys. On the windows side I think it's after winxp that they moved away from having color to greys, and then later to solid blocks
Hizonner 6y ago
That's because the "designers" don't give a shit about the users' actual needs. They just want the thing to be pretty. They'll also fuck with it every once in a while, making random pointless changes, just to keep the look "fresh". Way too many artistes can easily sneak onto your UX staff. Also watch out for people from marketing and the like who put pressure on the UX people to do that sort of thing. People who don't actually know how to make anything work, and don't have to actually use it to get work done, tend to be obsessed with how it looks. A few casual users who don't actually need to get anything done will usually support this kind of time-wasting idiocy, and the offenders will point to their feedback for validation. Unfortunately people who write reviews are often in that category, since they rarely make practical use of what they're reviewing.
userbinator 6y ago
...and thanks to some apps doing away with window borders completely, as well as everything becoming some drab grey colour, many times I've mistakenly clicked in and activated a different window while trying to manipulate a nearly-invisible "automatically expanding" scrollbar.

keyringlight 6y ago

Contrast is issue I've found to be annoying, as though UI designers don't really want you to spot it easily and to show the information it conveys. On the windows side I think it's after winxp that they moved away from having color to greys, and then later to solid blocks

Hizonner 6y ago

That's because the "designers" don't give a shit about the users' actual needs. They just want the thing to be pretty. They'll also fuck with it every once in a while, making random pointless changes, just to keep the look "fresh". Way too many artistes can easily sneak onto your UX staff. Also watch out for people from marketing and the like who put pressure on the UX people to do that sort of thing. People who don't actually know how to make anything work, and don't have to actually use it to get work done, tend to be obsessed with how it looks. A few casual users who don't actually need to get anything done will usually support this kind of time-wasting idiocy, and the offenders will point to their feedback for validation. Unfortunately people who write reviews are often in that category, since they rarely make practical use of what they're reviewing.

userbinator 6y ago

...and thanks to some apps doing away with window borders completely, as well as everything becoming some drab grey colour, many times I've mistakenly clicked in and activated a different window while trying to manipulate a nearly-invisible "automatically expanding" scrollbar.