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What Mobile app UI/UX fails annoy you the most?

Survey period: 30 Nov 2020 to 7 Dec 2020

Not that we like being negative, but sometimes it pays to highlight the things NOT to do.

Option	Votes	%
Requiring a registration or (worse) credit card before the user can do anything	1,066	81.19
Small buttons that allow mis-clicks	1,013	77.15
Text so small you can't read it	965	73.50
Hidden or complicated UI that's impossible to find until someone shows you	952	72.51
Faint grey text on a white background (or anything low contrast)	948	72.20
Not letting me paste into input boxes (esp. password boxes)	938	71.44
Trying to fit the UI suited to a 24" screen into a 6" screen	886	67.48
Not customising the keyboard to suit the input type (eg number pad for numbers, trimmed down keyboard for email addresses)	876	66.72
UI elements (eg hover) that work with a mouse, but not when using a finger	851	64.81
Other	703	53.54
Responses	1,313
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%

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Other - never ending ads DJ van Wyk30-Nov-20 20:13 DJ van Wyk 30-Nov-20 20:13  True Caller, looking at you! Push notifications for the same daily "special" every half an hour, and at least 3 daily popups for "exclusive monthly/yearly subscription options". If I said "no" the first 500 times, chances are that I will say "no" for the next 5 000 000 times. My plan is to live forever ... so far so good I don't use any mobile apps Scott Serl30-Nov-20 11:51 Scott Serl 30-Nov-20 11:51  period Re: I don't use any mobile apps W∴ Balboos, GHB1-Dec-20 1:25 W∴ Balboos, GHB 1-Dec-20 1:25  A man after my own heart. Ravings en masse^ "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 No Excuse! Paste problem raddevus30-Nov-20 11:09 raddevus 30-Nov-20 11:09  The paste problem is the dumbest problem of all. I try to ask this everywhere, but please answer this if you can: What hack would occur if they allowed an edit box to be pasted into? "Maybe someone will say, "Well they could programmatically paste into the edit box and repeat post numerous times." But that is easily fixed on the post or the client button or anything else. Not allowing paste is simply a knee-jerk reaction of some uninformed dev who was told to make his site or app secure. Those stupid "Please accept cookies" dialog boxes Erik Burd30-Nov-20 8:58 Erik Burd 30-Nov-20 8:58  The worst are those "Please accept cookies" dialog boxes that pop up continuously on some sites that appear literally 2 seconds after the text you're reading appears. Same with other popups that get in the way. "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian I checked all of them Slacker00730-Nov-20 4:54 Slacker007 30-Nov-20 4:54  since they all are annoying UI/UX fails. I don't really have one in particular that annoys me the most. Other CHill6030-Nov-20 4:38 CHill60 30-Nov-20 4:38  Ads embedded in content that take so long to load ... you touch what you think is the link/button/thing that you wanted, but the Ad will choose That Exact Moment to render, pushing the content down the page, and hey-ho, off we go to the Advertiser's site instead Oh, plus ALL of the above! Re: Other DJ van Wyk30-Nov-20 20:11 DJ van Wyk 30-Nov-20 20:11  CHill60 wrote: but the Ad will choose That Exact Moment to render I was going to mention this problem as well. Even with little time waster mobile games they have the tendency to put the "buy" button for their micro transactions in the exact place where the "OK" button for the daily news is. You wait 10 seconds for the cache to load and eventually give up, then the moment you press it you are busy buying something you have no interest in. My plan is to live forever ... so far so good Re: Other honey the codewitch30-Nov-20 22:11 honey the codewitch 30-Nov-20 22:11  I've made far more clickthroughs for advertisers because of that than I have because I was interested in the ad. I think the latter I've done once or twice, mostly out of curiosity (weird products) Real programmers use butterflies Re: Other Dar Brett30-Nov-20 22:40 Dar Brett 30-Nov-20 22:40  Gmail does that too - popping ads into the top two slots right as you click on your latest email. other V.29-Nov-20 22:20 V. 29-Nov-20 22:20  annoying hovers/popups that block your screen unwanted. double commercials unclear error messages or wrong approved messages V. Annoyance at different level - Credit Card for registration :doh: Sandeep Mewara29-Nov-20 18:23 Sandeep Mewara 29-Nov-20 18:23  Simply, leave the app and uninstall. No second thoughts. Keeping this option aside, mis-clicks are another annoyance which could lead to less usage of an app. Latest CodeProject post: How to solve Word Ladder Problem? Linear Time Partition – A Three Way Split To read all my blog posts, visit: Learn by Insight... modified 30-Nov-20 1:42am.

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