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Everything is overbuilt and over designed now. No one even uses native drop down menus anymore. I remember, years ago, selecting Oregon was _always_ tab, “o”, d
by pkulak 3y ago
Everything is overbuilt and over designed now. No one even uses native drop down menus anymore. I remember, years ago, selecting Oregon was _always_ tab, “o”, down, down, down. Now I have to figure out the bespoke widget that’s being drawn directly to the canvas, probably requiring a reach for the mouse, hopefully with a scroll wheel or you’re gonna be pecking at a tiny little scroll bar that may or may not even be there.
Which is all to say; I hate it and I’m sighted.
- chiefalchemist 3y ago> Everything is overbuilt and over designed now. Yes and no. In a way it's the same problem we (engineering) has always had. That is, technical decisions are made based on (engineers') egos and not on the needs of the client / product. Those used to be mainly decisions that impacted hardware and/or backend. Now they mainfest on the frontend. UX and QA should be speaking up but either don't exist (in some products), don't have the experience, or don't have the juice / power to say "this is crap. Fix it." We have met the enemy and he/she/they is us.
- abwizz 3y ago> UX and QA should be speaking up as long as only human subjective criteria have to be met, this is easily handled with marketing. </s> "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." -R. Feynman
- chiefalchemist 3y agoObjectively speaking, entering the first character in a select should bring you to the first option with that letter. For example, a select of States or Countries. Yet, that's too often not the case anymore. That is, you have to scroll over the list. How does anyone - engineers included - believe that's not shite?
- devinprater 3y agoOh yeah, those dropdowns, where it's just a text field but you can arrow through it like a dropdown. Except it'll say "<item> selected" or some such, and gives this long hint on how to use it. I believe [UberDuck](https://app.uberduck.ai/speak#mode=tts-basic&voice=zwf https://app.uberduck.ai/speak#mode=tts-basic&voice=zwf) still uses it. And we have this Attendance on Demand app we use to clock in and out at work, and it's pretty darn bad, with several buttons that have text labels beside the button instead of on the button, and don't even get me started about the calendar widget on there. I mean, you never know what component or framework or whatever will be used in an important product.
- himinlomax 3y agoDropdowns often suck even when they're using native widgets. Almost every time, even on a 4K monitor, you get just 3 lines of a 100-long list diplayed.
- JohnFen 3y agoDon't blame the control for this. Blame the developers who didn't think to adjust for this.
- somedude895 3y ago> I remember, years ago, selecting Oregon was _always_ tab, “o”, down, down, down. OT but being from Switzerland it wasn't UX that screwed that up for me, it was Swaziland renaming to Eswatini. Sure "s", "w", down is slightly quicker than "s", "w", down, down but some forms haven't updated the name yet.