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Mobile interfaces
Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 20 years (2007–2026), in 12 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 Mobile 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 12 complaints
- Mobile OS date pickers are poorly designed and hard to use for entering dates2026-07-14
- Hidden swipe and hold gestures hurt discoverability and accessibility for disabled and elderly users2025-07-06
- Scrollbars on mobile are easily hit accidentally by imprecise finger taps2024-06-25
- Can't tell what the full list of items is on mobile menus2024-05-21
- Interfaces are full of dark patterns that manipulate users2024-02-06
- Icons and gestures are obscure, with no hover tooltips or help to reveal what they do2023-01-16
- Mobile interfaces make many things hard to use properly2021-01-19
- Touch controls and dialogs pop over each other right before tapping2020-08-14
- Scrollbars on mobile add visual noise and are too small to use as a control2019-10-26
- Fat fingers accidentally grab scrollbar instead of tapping elements, jumping to random list spots2019-10-25
- The site doesn't work well on a PC, so it is hard to use there2011-10-17
- Mobile interfaces are poorly designed and hard to use for many phones2007-04-25