Grey on grey. (Grey background with the font in an off grey.)
Or
Having what appears to be a greyed out option but it's still an actual choice (greyed out means this is NOT an actual choice)
this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2025
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I've witnessed it is part of dark patterns in most websites. Often the more consumer friendly option in a consent dialog box is greyed out as if the option itself is unavailable. Even I would've been fooled by it if not for my habit of clicking on the button regardless.
Any website that hijacks my scroll wheel or forces smooth scrolling. It makes me unreasonably mad
I just noticed this on Newegg but when you load the page, it puts a search suggestion of something popular people are searching (today its MH Wilds) in the search bar. I guess the idea is that you can click on it to instantly search for that thing. The problem is, that it takes a beat to load in so by the time you click on the search bar to enter what you wanted, you've accidentally clicked the search suggestion and then are taken to those results, instead of being able to enter the thing you wanted to search for int he first place.
It takes over the right side of the search bar, but depending on the size of the browser window, that could end up taking the majority of the search bar's free space to click on.
Light font colors on light backgrounds are a terrible trend. The idea of text is to READ it.
Large empty margins, especially when the content in the middle doesn't fit due to a lack of space
Giant tiles or moving pictures instead of small buttons to click to navigate.
I'm not saying I want every website to look like Wikipedia but if I had to choose between mostly text with obviously clickable links vs abstract art with bullshit hit boxes I'll take the "boring" text every single time.
Too many UI devs forget that they need to make it functional and easy to navigate first and THEN you can add flair. Never add pizazz if it inhibits functionality or visibility.
Really appreciate these responses as an a11y and UX focused frontend SWE
Forced dark mode.
White font on a black background absolutely kills my eyes and I'll enable light mode wherever possible, but some sites force dark mode for the UI with no option to switch to light mode. I can read a paragraph and I'll still see that same paragraph in my vision for several minutes, even if I'm looking away from my monitor.
Not using HTML that's rendered server-side for everything.