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UX websites
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2010–2025), in 10 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 UX websites, 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 11 complaints
- Designers ignore usability research and prioritise aesthetics and sales over usability2025-02-07
- A survey popup appears immediately on load, before browsing the site2021-04-04
- Fixed-size font and poor spacing make the site hard to read2020-02-24
- Floating label vs inline label comparison is artificially constructed, and colour-only completion cues are illegible to low-vision users2020-02-09
- Sharing bar eats screen space and breaks scrolling; chat window overlays content2017-05-16
- Website scrolling is broken and doesn't work properly2017-02-27
- Navigation icons are unclear, so users can't tell where links lead2014-08-21
- Links open in new tabs, so the back button doesn't return to the index2014-02-03
- Reading chapters requires going back to the table of contents each time2014-02-03
- Text is crowded and small, forcing zoom, and taglines wrap and break the layout2010-12-24
- Content feels cluttered and hard to focus on2010-12-04