I just accidentally clicked the “clear all” on the browser URL and wished that it was a bit harder to click but was still there. If it took three clicks to make happen, its still useful in most circumstances but would drastically drop the mistaken clicks
Anyway, what are your unpopular UI opinions?
Idk I’m on two minds with this.
On the one hand, I agree that there’s too many clutter in modern UI design and it takes away precious screen real estate. Especially more so when it’s for ads (external), ads (internal), and more ads.
On the other hand, there seems to be a chronic minimalist UI movement to hide even essential controls and info into menus upon menus. The worse part is that there’s tons of whitespace so you’ll still won’t get good information density.
I think you mean that there is tonnes of white space when the website is opened on a desktop in a single window. I’m often on a laptop with multiple windows and the was a lot of websites are implemented then are often frustrated.
But agreed with you on the minimalist movement. I think I’d reframe it as some people in UI see simple as elegant and beautiful though. There is a push beyond minimalist into not giving options that a lot of users would want, but they’re not primary user journeys