I personally hate rounded corners and shadows added everywhere. Makes most things look crappy and smudged.
When marking something to copy and paste. You start marking the text and drag to the right. If you drag too far to the right, your highlighting goes away and everything to the left of where you started becomes highlighted. Why would anybody ever want that behaviour? It is exactly the opposite of what you are trying to do.
Thin scrollbars. Why do I have to aim for a tiny area to click on a scroll bar? Other UI elements aren’t that narrow.
Clicking and dragging on a scrollbar lets you rapidly scroll up or down. Or clicking like 3/4 of the way down takes you instantly there.
The left side gutter that, I fear, is a trend still in it’s infancy.
Dear Microsoft: I’m never going to launch apps from within teams or outlook. Why they fuck would I, that’s what your terrible OS is for. Stop it.
Don’t forget Microsoft’s whole “we’re gonna pretend like we’re integrating everything just so you can never find anything”… I work from home half the week but don’t want to receive phone calls after-hours (because of course we had to fucking get rid of real phones and change to Teams). Oh they claim there’s lots of scheduling options, but when you dig into it you find out you can’t actually schedule anything in Teams, you have to go into Outlook. I’m on Linux, Outlook isn’t an option even if I wanted to touch that steaming pile. So I go to the web version of Outlook only to find that no, despite their assurances, you cannot actually schedule your office hours to send phone calls straight to voicemail. That feature might come “soon” but considering half the time our staff launches Teams they get a blank page on private chats and have to keep restarting until they show up, I have a serious lack of faith that Microsoft could code up something useful for office hours.
tl;dr: Using “integration” as a buzzword to put options in unrelated and unused products, only to discover those features don’t even work.
Fromt the top of my head:
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all kinds of pop-ups wanting to guide me through their software/website latest features, giving me pro-tips or recommendations I didn’t ask for
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notifications about shit I didn’t subscribe to
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a virtual assistant icon in the corner showing a message that it wants to help me or talk to me
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autoplaying videos (bonus points if it’s a video unrelated to the article)
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cookies pop-ups
On the desktop, a lot of programs have been removing and hiding capabilities to look more like tablets and phones. This sucks, as I’m using a desktop which has the room to show all the fiddly bits.
The tablet feel was what drove me away from Windows and then Gnome on Linux. Now I happily KDE.
I think this is because it’s more expensive and takes longer to build and maintain a desktop website, mobile website, and app.
If you design everything to work on mobile, you can reuse it as the desktop site. You can most likely reuse assets in the app as well.
Also, people are using their phones a lot more frequently than desktop/laptop, so mobile experience gets prioritized.
