Blocking modal windows are a sin and make me less likely to interact with a site. Imgur is also guilty. No, I don’t want to participate in your community meme event when I’m just trying to look at an image on the app that is clogging up my RAM because you think it does something important and interesting enough to warrant deeplinking it in an electron wrapper.
Also, while I’m here, fuck modal windows with no X to close button which forces you to read the buttons to figure out which one is the “fuck off” button and not the “take all my money” button.
Hey, remember the days of pop-up windows where the X button was labelled “Open in background” if you hovered over it. At least there’s been some progress. \s
Or the X has the same color as the background, making it hard to see at all and so small, it’s almost unusable on Mobile.
These are all intentional, to make it hard for you. I build websites for a living and clients actually ask for designs that “keep” the user on the site. Since i have no say in things other than the area that affects my work, i sometimes hate my job and have no other way than just do my job.
“Oh, the cancel button is too big. Make it smaller or better yet, don’t make it a button, just a small text link, somewhere at the bottom, with font-size: 9 px … And remove the underline…”
Blocking modal windows are a sin and make me less likely to interact with a site. Imgur is also guilty. No, I don’t want to participate in your community meme event when I’m just trying to look at an image on the app that is clogging up my RAM because you think it does something important and interesting enough to warrant deeplinking it in an electron wrapper.
Also, while I’m here, fuck modal windows with no X to close button which forces you to read the buttons to figure out which one is the “fuck off” button and not the “take all my money” button.
Hey, remember the days of pop-up windows where the X button was labelled “Open in background” if you hovered over it. At least there’s been some progress. \s
Or the X has the same color as the background, making it hard to see at all and so small, it’s almost unusable on Mobile.
These are all intentional, to make it hard for you. I build websites for a living and clients actually ask for designs that “keep” the user on the site. Since i have no say in things other than the area that affects my work, i sometimes hate my job and have no other way than just do my job.
“Oh, the cancel button is too big. Make it smaller or better yet, don’t make it a button, just a small text link, somewhere at the bottom, with font-size: 9 px … And remove the underline…”