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?
Out of curiosity, how do you feel about sites that keep a colored underline on links, but have the text color be the same as the body text?
Less problematic, but still potentially confusing. Why break the standard and add another variable people need to consider in order to find the form and function they’ve already learned? Links are there as a functional element, not an aesthetic design.
I get people wanting to add their own touch or sense of style, but doing so at the cost of intuitive functionality, especially a kind that is long established and standardized, can be a slippery slope.
All that said: At the end of the day, it’s up to the creator, of course. If someone really wants to indicate their links with upside down text and no underline, or a glowing CSS effect, or whatever, I’m not going to demand that they stop. Especially if it’s a personal website. Your satisfaction with your work and self expression is more important than a guy yelling at a cloud about front end web design standards and whatever. I’ll just reserve my right to gripe over some minor personal annoyances, and everyone will be just fine in the end!
Back when I was a kid on MSN Messenger, a bunch of my friends had names like this:
☆꧁✬◦°˚°◦. ǟɮɮɨɛ .◦°˚°◦✬꧂☆
I disliked it even then, because it’s not really about personal expression or style, it’s more about wanting to stand out in other people’s contact lists and look the most special and get the most attention.
It’s an arms race that leads to a user list that’s impossible to find anyone in, and when everyone is special then nobody is.
I ca̴n’̸t rea̵d wha̴͌t ̸̈́y̶o̵u̷͆’r̴̚e̸ ̷s̴à̴y̵i̵͛n̴̓g̴͑ ̵f̶ró̵m̸̜̎ ̴̊ơ̴v̵e̴͂r ̵͎̽h̷̛̺̀͑̃er̵̆e̴…̴. But not sure what thé solutïon would be. Forbiddíng non-english text would be even worse UI.
For me back in the day, the solution was a third-party add-on which patched the Messenger client with a bunch of improvements - one of which was the ability to set a custom alias for a contact. So you could set any name you like and for you, they’d show up as that.
Discord actually has it too, but ONLY for friends, which in my opinion is a massive oversight, but I guess they were worried about the possibility of abuse or something, so there we go.