Watched my coworker move her cursor to the right edge of her right-hand monitor to get it to over to the left side of her left-hand monitor. When I offered to show her how to adjust her display settings, she said she was used to it and didn’t want to change it. I don’t think I can walk by her desk while she’s working ever again.
What have you got?
Icons where there should be labels.
There’s 12 random shapes in the interface. Clicking 1 of them might delete or block this contact, or it might allow you to send an attachment. How can you find out? You can’t, cause there are no mouse-over labels either, and if you had the option to enable them, it would be hidden behind one of the 12 shapes that may cause more unknown trouble. So you can’t feel safe to experiment either.
searching for google in google
people having no idea what to do when the instructions are literally on the screen, in front of them. Not “how” (that can be understandable), but “what”.
People who watch videos with the cursor hovering over the progress bar/playback controls so they never disappear.
People who don’t understand windows or the minimize, maximize, and close buttons. So they constantly close the window and then relaunch the program to get back to the main screen or switch tasks.
i die inside a little everytime i see my mom doin this
And on macOS people not understanding that just because all the windows of an application are closed it doesn’t mean it’s not running.
I actually love this design because there’s no need for a window to be there while playing music for example.
any normal music player works/can work that way on windows and linux
With Word, people using section breaks when most of the time they should have used the simpler page break.
Section breaks are supposed to be used if you want to have a change in the document layout in the middle of the document. This change could be with the margins, the orientation, the contents of the header or footer, the numbering (eg switch from roman numerals to arabic numerals), etc.
But if you just want the line to move to the next page, use a page break. Section breaks increase the chance of unintended layout and page numbering inconsistencies.
Microsoft should rename section break to “layout break” maybe.
Also, related topic, I really hate it when people just input a bunch of line breaks to get the cursor to the next page, instead of a page break.
People breaking lines manually by pressing Enter and indenting the paragraph by inserting spaces at the beginning of the line.
Office on macOS in general. Shit looks horrible, it doesn’t respect the OS it’s running on:
- Command + click on the title of a window (document) doesn’t reveal it in Finder
- Cannot rename an open document (what in the Windows 95 is this shit?)
- The Open/Save dialogs are soooo huge and sloppy
- The huge IE 6.0-style toolbars with tabs are fucking atrocious
- Some updater bullshit that runs in the background all the time and doesn’t use the trusty traditional framework or the App Store
Happy I don’t need to swap
.docxfiles anymore, I do everything in Numbers and Pages these days.When a document of fixed length and short paragraphs, like a resume or letter, has a paragraph split at the bottom and continued on the next page
People who take a photo of their monitor instead of a screenshot.
I’m guilty of this for texting or other phone-specific communications.
Sure, I could take a screenshot on the computer, email it to myself, download it to my phone, then add it to a text… Or, I have a camera right there. There has to be a good reason to not take the easy route.
Just use KDE connect to send files between your Phone and PC. Much simpler, and for a photo that would take literal seconds.
If your messager can’t be used on a computer I feel sorry for you. Signal, Whatsapp, Telegram all have windows or browser clients
Why would a for-profit company spend three millions to develop the desktop application, then a million per month to maintain it, in order to lose your personal data therefore making less money?
People who take a screenshot instead of sending a link. I don’t want to see your crusty shitphone or Windows UI, thank you very much.
Or, as a web developer: users who take a screenshot of a problem but completely exclude the URL and/or any other identifier I’d need to actually find the relevant record(s) so I can hope to reproduce the problem and find its cause.
Screenshots are so much faster than a link though on a phone. I do crop mine before sending, but I send a lot of Screenshots in my group chats.
It’s faster? For me it’s a lot faster to hit the share sheet and send a URL than it is to screw around with a screenshot (which is also larger and takes longer to send when using a slow VPN).
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I have a coworker that has two monitors on a free-moving desk stand and he has monitors as far apart as possible. The monitors are pretty small (24") and there is over two monitor widths between them. He has to whip his head around like he is trying trying to dodge a fly all day to do his work.
He complains about back and neck pain all the time.
- having hundreds, even thousands of unread emails in their inbox and constantly complain they did not see the email I sent them. Fucking unsubscribe from all the newsletters you don’t read and disable that Jira ticket update spam you don’t need to respond to. Suddenly it’s all manageable because you don’t actually get many important emails!
- in general (not just computer related) not learning how to use the tools available to you to solve problems you obviously have
Quick tip for anyone in this situation.
Start by using search to clear everything in your inbox from a particular sender you know wont have sent anything important.
Don’t catch up by going one mail at a time, catch up going one sender at a time. You’ll be done within a day.
I’ve done this, can confirm it works. Unsubscribe from the senders you don’t need while you’re at it, and the problem will be significantly easier to manage in the future as well!
Don’t know why I never thought of this before. Just sorted by sender and was able to crank through a ton of emails.
I’m absolutely guilty of what OP describes as being annoying. My coping mechanisms meant ratcheting down the frequency of monitoring those feeds. No email alerts, ever. Check and respond to email twice daily. Respond to IMs (Teams) hourly. Otherwise, pay attention to the meeting I’m in or the work I’m doing. So if I get sent an email I may not get to it for a while, sometimes not before the meeting I’m being called out on.
But in my role I spend 90% of my day in meetings or joint working sessions. Others with different working profiles would have different strategies and expectations, as does the OP, I suspect.
There’s a (really good) song on youtube called “clean the fan”. It says it all. Stuff is just designed so poorly
I’ve noticed Chinese people doing this often. I assume that it’s to do with Chinese keyboard layouts.
Yeah, people doing that is my fault.
My bad.
There is at least one exception in my opinion where this is acceptable: when writing special characters with diacritics etc. (for example é, à), caps-lock can help capitalizing these letters since they often already require shift to be pressed. I’m aware that there are other ways (i.E. type the diacritic first, then the letter), but the caps-lock way seems easier to me.
Whenever I need to all caps a word, I have this habit of pressing and holding the shift key with my pinkie finger and pressing the letter keys 1 letter at a time.
moving mouse targets. Like let’s say you have two pinned items on the start menu, Firefox and steam. You click Firefox and it starts to open. You go to click steam, but Firefox finishes opening and the icon gets bigger. Steam’s icon then moves to the right, so you click where it was but instead just hit Firefox again. It’s stupid.
Note how Firefox has solved this with tabs. Open a bunch of browser tabs. Enough so they shrink a little. Then rapidly close some, starting from the left. Notice how they don’t change size until you’re done closing tabs.
Mouse tunnels. Like you click the “File” menu, and then mouse over “New” and a long sub menu opens. Longer than the original File menu. If you mouse directly from the top of File to the bottom of New, your cursor will briefly be outside either menu. This often will cause the entire menu to close. Mouse tunnel. Have to keep the cursor in the tunnel. Annoying.
Had an old job that insisted this was fine and refused to let me or anyone change the interface to fix it (on a website)
Focus stealing. Like you’re typing, and some other application pops up and takes focus. The absolute worst is when it pops up and puts focus on a dialogue box, and you just happened to hit “enter”. Instead of adding a new line to your document, you just accepted something. Awful.
As a web developer it’s when people want me to code ridiculous things because they don’t know how to use files, their OS or their web browser.
Recently someone complained to me that they’d like a dropdown to be sorted a very specific way (rather than alphabetical) because it’s “too hard” to scroll through the undesired options. They don’t realize that by doing that you would no longer be able to correctly tab into the field then type the first few letters of the desired option.
Or another user who reported that emailing documents wasn’t working because he could no longer email them to himself through the website. He could’ve simply downloaded the document using another link (right next to the email sending link) but refused to do so because he doesn’t know how to handle the file after downloading.
tab
Your unreasonable expectations have a name, and it is tab.
When I know for a fact I clicked something for it to function and it just doesn’t, requiring multiple clicks.
I still cannot use special characters in filenames, 40 years of Windows OSes in.
The primary reason to this day as to why I have two monitors, isn’t just because to separate things from one monitor to the other. It is because Windows task manager never is strong enough to take primary focus by being on top of programs or other things that take up the entire screen. It just sits in the background and I don’t have access to it. Even when keystrokes don’t work. I could feasibly use one monitor, granted if it’s big enough, if it weren’t for that.
This is program specific, but fucking AIMP, I love it as my audio player of choice. But it acts weird. Sometimes it’ll prefer to stick to the top of my screen, sometimes it won’t show, prompting me to find it and other random annoying things about it. And I hate it too when it goes to the next song and this banner slowly fades in at the top of my screen to tell me what song it is and it also just pauses everything for a moment just for that. There’s other ways I can tell what you’re playing, I don’t need that.
And my final but above-all peeve is when the focus is taken away from my cursor. Like when things just take the function of my cursor when I’m doing something else, when I’m not expecting it to. Like when I install things, I know something will pop up to distract me, I expect that in cases of installing drivers or a prompt window telling me something is done. I just hate it when random non-virus related events take over my cursor when I’m doing something. I wish there comes a day, when you have the option to have a click-free way to prioritize what windows or programs you want to focus on, than something else hogging the attention.
I still cannot use special characters in filenames, 40 years of Windows OSes in.
That’s a good thing IMO. The benefits of using special characters in this specific case are slim, but the repercussions for every single programming language that ever touches file or folder names (i.e. basically all of them) are pretty big.
Like seriously, I’d wager that entire companies might crawl to a stop because Bernice in accounting put a “/” into some important excel file name.
When I know for a fact I clicked something for it to function and it just doesn’t, requiring multiple clicks.
This, but when the UI also reacts and does it’s ‘button pressed’ animation.
I know I pressed the button, you obviously know I pressed the button; why are you not doing the thing???
And I hate it too when it goes to the next song and this banner slowly fades in at the top of my screen to tell me what song it is and it also just pauses everything for a moment just for that. There’s other ways I can tell what you’re playing, I don’t need that.
you can turn that off in the settings. Actually I was pretty happy that it works on linux through wine. but if you can’t find the option, let me know, I have managed to find it recently I think
