Ant Design

Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2016–2025), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Ant Design, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 12 complaints

Date picker takes about a minute to respond on slow connections and is confusing to use2025-03-12
Canvas-rendered UI is inaccessible to users relying on assistive technology2024-07-02
DatePicker with time renders outside the viewport and can't be scrolled2024-07-02
Impossible to customize the component library's appearance2022-06-10
Changing antd styles is a mess and frustrating without knowing Less2022-04-26
Documentation is less clear, making the library a struggle to use2020-04-09
Page becomes unresponsive when a multi-select with 200+ items is opened2020-02-29
Dropdown ignores typing the first letter of an item to select it2016-11-28
Customizing theme requires webpack and special plugins; styling parts differently is impossible2016-11-28
Components are impossible to theme, and defaults override the app's existing styles2016-11-28
Time controls are hard to tap on an iPad, scrolling page instead2016-11-28
Keyboard focus outlines removed, so the focused element is hard to see2016-11-28