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Taffer 🇨🇦 :godot:

Hey "UX" designers; stop removing UI components that "clutter" the design or "waste space", they're there for a reason.

For example, here's Vivaldi's settings dialog. It's resizable if you grab the ~1 pixel at the edge. WHERE IS THE EDGE?

Remember when we had human interface guidelines, before mobile design made everything worse? Good times.

My KDE desktop running the Vivaldi web browser in the foreground. Vivaldi's Settings dialog is open on top of Kagi's homepage, which is white, the same colour as the Settings background. The Settings dialog has no edges because "minimalist" design is all about showing the user a completely blank, white page, and completely ignoring decades of human-computer interaction research.
#vivaldi#ux#ui
Taffer 🇨🇦 :godot:

Setting Vivaldi to "Use Native Window" (which requires a restart) gives the Settings dialog edges again 👍 , but the menu doesn't have edges. White on white.

Which is weird, and bad UI, but at least it's not something you need to grab to resize.

#vivaldi#ux#ui
Mar 30, 2025, 12:46 PM·Public
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