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?
Modal dialogs. Making it impossible to move the window or reference something else in the same interface.
Toasts on android. No idea where the toasts came from and no way to look up what the toast said after it disappears.
Internal to Google what you’re calling toasts were made to need user input to dismiss as part of accessibility pushes to win government contracts. That really just highlighted their issues for me though, most of them should be behind a small element I think, like the notification bell. And I think a bunch should be more localised to the action / app
Also don’t forget some androids cut toast text if too long with no way to see the full text.
Ah yeah, don’t you love f-droid’s impossible to read 5-line toasts that randomly appear when something in the background fails?