Cory DoctorowOct 25
The fact that hotels have started hiring escape room designers to hide their light switches seems related to the fact that UI designers turned scrollbars into the world's shittiest video games/hand-eye coordination tests.
Show threadSOwOphie ⠬⠆
@pluralistic My conspiracy theory: scroll bars are incompatible with infinite scrolling, and that is vital to keeping users "engaged".
Oct 25 at 11:20pmWeb
Show threadNikuNashiOct 26

@sowophie @pluralistic

or "enraged".

Hard to say, they seem to be equivalent these days.

Multiple scrollbars stacked on top of each other instead of next to what's scrolling is another pain in the 🫏. I think the idea is that it's "cleaner", but it's completely shit functionality.

Show threadDaNannerOct 26
@sowophie it’s not a conspiracy theory though. There’s plenty of published studies around the dopamine hits and infinite scroll.