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Web design tools

Raised as a usability problem by 14 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2009–2022), in 13 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 Web design tools, 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 14 complaints

Content is present in the page but hidden with CSS, so it's obscured until JavaScript reveals it2022-10-27
Web design tools are far from intuitive, causing collaboration friction between designers, copywriters, and developers2021-06-13
Custom controls and hijacked scrollbars lose the ergonomic features of default controls2019-11-26
Artsy layouts hide information and make it hard to find what you need2019-03-05
Back button doesn't work, leaving the reader lost after clicking a link2019-01-05
Gray body text is too light, causing eye strain while reading2018-08-21
Layout breaks horribly when browser default text size is changed from 16px2016-07-27
Small fonts, low contrast and long lines make sites hard to read, so the commenter uses Reader Mode2016-02-24
Confusing content layout; featured items buried at bottom and clicking articles leads to confusing ad page2015-09-09
Hard to get a quick overview; centered lines and whitespace confuse which are headings2012-09-19
Unclear whether in-page links navigate to a new page; lightbox size and content confusing2012-01-09
Log in button text is cut off, missing the final letter2010-02-04
Demo pages lack navigation, forcing users back to homepage to view other demos2010-02-04
Horizontal scrolling confuses users, and footers make pages look unfinished so they refresh instead of scrolling2009-12-27