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>> Apple learned the lesson about visible scrollbars the hard way when it introduced its ultra-minimal, disappearing scrollbar indicators. >> There’s no visual
by adamredwoods 3y ago
>> Apple learned the lesson about visible scrollbars the hard way when it introduced its ultra-minimal, disappearing scrollbar indicators.
>> There’s no visual indication that there’s more content present in this window—the only way to discover it is to scroll downwards. However, without an affordance to indicate the presence of additional offscreen content, the chances are low that someone will bother to check.
I appreciate the callout that Apple is an infringer on removing the scrollbars, which is a bad UI practice. For the entire lifespan of the web, overflow content indicators have been (aka scrollbars), for better or worse, an inherent function of the browser.
- em_te 3y agoMoreover, Google said they did a study when they first released their minimalist homepage design and when people saw lots of white space below the search bar, they assumed the page wasn't finished loading yet and more content was to come. People were accustomed to long pages like Yahoo's homepage with lots of content below the search bar. They solved it by adding a footer section with typical copyright text and people understood that the page was finished loading.