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Comment on Ask HN: What recent UX changes make no sense to you?

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All the extra empty space everywhere. Some websites are impossibly empty. They look zoomed in. This is super annoying.

The loss of a clear design language for desktop apps is also frustrating. Windows XP apps tended to use standard Windows controls, in more or less the same way. Modern apps though are all spaced out HTML/WPF CSS styled wannabe websites.

We cannot solve complexity with empty space and style sheets.

Also this glass thing on iOS. Definitely under cooked. The keyboard doesn’t even fill out the bottom corners of the screen.

I installed stylish for Firefox and sometimes use some custom CSS to enlarge the body. I recently did it for chatgpt, on a 32" having the main content filling 1/4 of the display is ridiculous

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