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Computer user interfaces
Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2011–2025), in 9 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Computer user interfaces, 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 9 complaints
- Dad repeatedly can't find how to turn on subtitles2025-10-14
- Computer user interfaces are generally bad to use2023-04-19
- Tech companies keep moving interface elements around, so older users must relearn how to use it2022-02-10
- Users can't tell whether to type a web address or search criteria in the same box2021-10-15
- Cannot find files among hundreds of desktop icons, downloads and tabs2021-06-01
- Computer interfaces are designed terribly because designers tolerate bad ones2020-06-29
- Input feedback lags because UI waits on slow autocorrect before showing results2019-12-19
- Older users struggle to close, minimize, open windows and navigate local files2017-03-18
- Interfaces require obscure knowledge unnecessarily and are poorly designed2011-07-19