Mouse-over menus that don’t stay open to be able to navigate to the other end of that menu.

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…

Hamburger menus with the button in the top left corner. Bro, my thumb is down here in the bottom right corner. I already try to buy smaller phones and it’s still almost impossible to use these menus. Would it be so hard to at least put them on the right side?

Hijacking ctrl+f or forward slash. I use those to tell my browser to search the text of the current page. When websites steal that from me and make it do a search within the website, I get extremely upset.

The arrogance, the fucking gall it takes to do shit like that. It’s insane.

Another one is unloading content after you’ve scrolled past it, meaning I can no longer get search hits where search hits should definitely be happening.

Auto playing video if I clicked a link that was not indicated beyond any reasonable doubt that it was a video.

Making any sound at all unless instructed to.

pages that move after the initial load without user input should be illegal.

A big plus one to ambiguous switches. Two things I didn’t see already mentioned:

First: if you have content that requires horizontal scrolling, like a big table or report, that horizontal scroll bar needs to be on the screen, not at the bottom of the report. I shouldn’t have to scroll hundreds of rows vertically in order to be able to scroll horizontally. While we’re at it, column headers need to stay on screen when you scroll vertically past them.

Second: if there are two choices, identifying which is active needs to be more than just changing the color. Outline that shit or add a halo, throb, or something. Sometimes a user depends on tabbing and not using a pointing device or touch screen, especially when using assistive technology. This is especially heinous when the content is consumed on a tv using a remote control, such as a streaming service or DVD menu.

Pictures that don’t change size when you pinch zoom the page.

Hidden scroll bar. We don’t need that extra half centimeter of content, we need a visible scroll bar I can conveniently grab. Why do I have to try to maneuver the cursor to the right spot to make the scroll bar appear, then find the current position, move the mouse to it hoping the scroll bar doesn’t disappear again, and finally get to scroll.

Both infinite scrolling and excessive paging interfere with me being able to navigate to a spot.

• If you need to do infinite scrolling do it the right way and just display it all on one page. It’s not like the content is ever a significant part of the bandwidth needed. Now you can simplify your buggy JavaScript monstrosity by not implementing paging and I can use <CTRL-F> to more easily find what I need
• and seriously stop with the excessive paging - we all have computers that can manage more than 12 lines of stuff. I’m not even talking about the slideshow websites, at least they have the logical motivation of maximizing ads. For example if I’m reading some dreck ranking the us state on some metric, it’s ok to display all fifty on one page. If I’m reading something with a list of thousands why am I paging through 10-20 at a time with no way to jump to what I’m looking for?

Put a damn selection area around your switches/check boxes so I don’t have to click precisely on the teeny tiny little box with my giant fingers. You know what I want to do, There are no other elements near it. Just put a damn div area around the object that has an onclick so I can toggle the thing without zooming it to the size of my screen to press right on the tiny little button to toggle my setting

Wizards / steppers

They suck and I’m tired of pretending they’re in any way a good design.

Switches and checkboxes that are unclear if they are on or off and which option does what.

I see it a lot in games where it is extremely unclear from the wording and the swith/checkbox if it needs to be on/checked or off to make the thing do as you want.

And when the swith has a light green and slightly grayer light green or similar as ita colours it doesn’t help, because not only doesn’t you know what way the swith need to go to get the outcome you want. You doesn’t know what way the swith is going anyway.

• I don’t understand the logic of presenting just-arrived users with a popup to sign up for a newsletter or anything. I have just arrived and will need time to see the content before I can make that kind of decision.
• likewise, I do not understand moving a video to floating at the bottom corner of a page after I have scrolled past the original location of the video. If I wanted to watch the video, why would I have scrolled past it? Very often reading is superior so moving the video to the corner only adds distraction to my attempt to consume your content.
• Please do not overwrite established keyboard shortcuts for browser functions. Even if you have a desktop version of your web-app you should accept that your users are using a browser to access the web-app version of your product and retain all established browser keyboard shortcuts.
• Lazy loading of data is counter productive most times. When a set of data is presented by a web page, pagination is fine. This provides a clear indicator that the set of data on the current page is complete, and a CTRL-F can be performed. The process of lazy loading of additional data after scrolling to a certain point provides the end user not visual cue where the current set of results lives within the full set. In the best of cases this means having to continually scroll to the bottom of a page until nothing new loads before doing a search through the results. In the worst of cases lazy-loading will remove earlier entries and make it completely impossible to do a search through presented results.
• Is your site or product intended to be end-user data to sell to data brokers? If not, then you should not be engaging in any practices that will result in any data being sold to anyone. If you are selling a physical product or service that is unrelated to end-user data and you still find yourself tempted to sell end-user data, please consider increasing your product’s price instead. This practice makes it seem that your product or service is not of high enough quality for you to make the money you need from it, and instead have to rely on the questionable practice of selling user data to close that gap.
• Nagging customers to disable ad blockers is objectively pathetic. Unfortunately these are NECESSARY because the vast majority of sites pushing advertising are doing so through 3rd party services that are NOT moderating the content of the advertisements to remove malware or outright scams. Either accept that this is a security necessity, or insert your advertisements yourself. The vast majority of ad blocking software do so based off of the established codes used by 3rd party ad vendors and manually inserted advertisements will not suffer. Your ad network made this a requirement and you should be punishing them, not your users.
• if you have pagination on your site’s content, either allow the next set of results to actually load a new page, or ensure that clicking “Next” also includes moving to the top of the list when the next page is loaded. After clicking “Next” I shouldn’t have to manually scroll up to the top of the new results.

When a page is so bloated with crap, certain elements load much after certain others, leading me to believe the page has loaded, and to click on something jus as somthing else loads and pushes it down/to the side.

I have to mention consent popovers anyway, because many of them don’t even comply to law. They should be better. None should ask for sharing data to over 50 or over 100 “partners”.

I hate what I would label marketing or design websites with huge banners and non-telling marketing-speak text. I want information, and in a reasonable form and density. A huge banner [of happy people] with no relation to the product is wasted space. I want concise information, not evasive and positive-only speak.

Article webpage where the next article follows. Even worse when there is no clear visual content separation to indicate it’s something different now.

Auto-playing videos. Despite browser blocking them, evading that, or popover videos when scrolling, or videos embedded that have nothing to do with the article. They are atrocious.

Overly verbose text. Overly verbose intro text and context descriptions. Not getting to the point. Not linking sources.

Too small text. I have a web-browser setting for default font size. Don’t make it 40% of that for no reason.

No dark mode. In the evenings, flashing me is always irritating, and I have to manually enable a dark mode hack.

Wasted space for layout spacing. Looking pretty over usability or dense information.

Zoom can be implemented good or bad - depending on what you increase in terms of font size, spacing, component spacing, etc.

Contact - support or otherwise - only via shitty chatbot or web forms with too much required details. Give me a simple email address.

Newsletter or subscribe requests. I’ll do it if I want to, never upon request. Worst when they show up before you consumed their content; could not even assess quality or interest.

Shit DOM design, lack of selectors. Programmatically interfacing with a website through DOM can be very helpful. For CSS hacks, or content extraction. Like tracking Terms of Service or Privacy Policy, or customizing or fixing layouts. Lack of speaking DOM element classes or ids breaks those interfaces.