I wish to understand what elements or aspects of the design of modern websites the end users are annoyed from. Though you are free to express your personal opinions, it would be even more insightful if you could provide objective criticism and suggestions for alternative implementations so that I may incorporate the same in my current and future projects to make them as user friendly as possible.
Some criticisms I have encountered a while back include:
- Switches being basically checkboxes with more ambiguous active state
- Scrolling animations that prohibit user from linearly scrolling through the page
Make sure that the opinion is not
- Related to business/legal matters e.g. Cookie consent notices, ad banners etc.
- Too vague e.g. Poor website layout
- Highlighting objectively bad practices e.g. Lack of accessibility features
I recognise I could have followed a design system for this question, but I want to understand the situation from the perspective of the end users to see if they have a differing view on what a convenient user experience should be like.
This might be out of scope but: Cookie banners. Please just give me one single button to disagree to all unnecessary cookies like intended by law. And stop this “legitimate interest” bullshit where I have to disagree AGAIN but this time MANUALLY for each of your 873 “partners” to actually disagree?? If you give me an option to disagree to all but then there’s also 800+ secret checkboxes to REALLY disagree, that just feels like you’re making fun of me.
Like a lemonade stand that also offers urine and when you don’t want urine in your lemonade, they instead just directly piss in your mouth. Not a great user experience…