Microsoft Visio

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2014–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Microsoft Visio, 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 5 complaints

Stencil UX/UI is considered the absolute worst2025-03-05
Visio is nearly unusable on the desktop, having gotten much worse2022-06-22
Couldn't work out how to make the diagram larger than a single page2018-12-30
Takes about three times longer than an hour to make a figure2018-12-30
Drawing even simple flowcharts or network diagrams is a painful, terrible UI experience2014-10-20