I just accidentally clicked the “clear all” on the browser URL and wished that it was a bit harder to click but was still there. If it took three clicks to make happen, its still useful in most circumstances but would drastically drop the mistaken clicks
Anyway, what are your unpopular UI opinions?
The hamburger button is an abomination, we need the proper menus back
Unpopular opinion: I like the hamburger button. Easy to find at a glance, and I don’t have to guess which sub-menu the settings are in. Now, if you have a hamburger AND 3 dots… 🤬🤬🤬
Gmail is the best (worst) example of this. They literally have EVERY possible icon for “settings” on the page at once.
There’s a hamburger button. There’s a three dots button. There’s a NINE DOTS BUTTON. There’s a cog. There’s a slider icon. And you click your profile picture for “manage your account.”
Hamburger menus are fine if the developer has the restraint to truly limit the number of items, but it can quickly become an unsorted “junk drawer.” And you sometimes still end up with submenus anyway!
Unfun fact: I taught computer literacy for about a year. The students struggled to see or find the hamburger menu on many pages. Understandably so, because it literally does not look like anything.
Here I was going to join this thread to share the controversial opinion of “The hamburger menu is fine,” because I thought the general trend was shifting away from using them.
Admittedly the hamburger menu is often misused. It’s like the junk drawer for developers who don’t know how to logically streamline the navigation modes within their app, so they just throw everything in there. But when it’s used well, to me at least, it’s a better option than some of the alternatives. I prefer to have views that I almost never use just kept out of the way in a menu I can manifest at will instead of occupying permanent space on a navigation bar.