Ask HN: What's the most frustrating user interface you use regularly?

2 pointsposted 5 months ago
by RachealMichelle

Item id: 45252167

7 Comments

smt88

5 months ago

iOS, hands down. Why can I still not reply to messages from my notification drawer? Why doesn't the keyboard suggest contractions? Why don't I have a dedicated back button, like I did on Android? Why is Siri so astonishingly bad? Why are there 3-4 different settings (including the hardware mute switch!) that control volume? Why are hidden, undiscoverable gestures the only way to do important things?

I was forced to switch from Android 3 years ago, and I am shocked every day that the UX is so much worse.

pirates

5 months ago

Illustrator for iPad. Especially coming from CS6. It seems like most of the functionality exists, but some things are incredibly tedious to change or are buried too many menus deep. It’s almost an uncanny valley thing, it’s too close to what I’m used to that it throws me off. I tend to only reach for it when I specifically want use a stylus/pencil and then go back to desktop as soon as I can.

billconan

5 months ago

I don't like YouTube. I have a very long list of subscriptions, there is no way to organize them into folders.

They are removing the mini-player button under the video player. I have a short attention span, I want to minimize the player and browse other videos.

bediger4000

5 months ago

Gnu Image Manipulation Program. Lots of twiddly things wrong, like:

Doing a crop, the cursor almost disappears. Same with freestyling the outline of some complicated shape to cut.

Picking a color doesn't work consistently.

Choosing a pencil or brush - WTF, it's all wrong.

The layers menu is incomprehensible.

There's a lot more.

gooodvibes

5 months ago

ServiceNow and JIRA feel actively hostile towards the user.

incomingpain

5 months ago

Ive used alot of bad UI and I dont currently use any UI that I would call bad.

LM Studio though... boy I kind of wish I could fork it and fix the ui lol.

btschaegg

5 months ago

Jira, Confluence, MS Teams.

Slow, disorganized, delaying every navigation, screwing up things as simple as copy+paste and other basic functions (Teams: muting/unmuting with a headset in voice calls, Jira: apparently, simple text templates in tickets are impossible (wtf?)), are impossible to search through successfully,… the list seems endless.