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Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by netsharc on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @10:18AM (#24628114)
The god damned cookie consent popups do this. The "Decline" buttons are small and grey, the "Accept all and save" are big and green. They'd show empty checkboxes/iOS-style sliders at the off position that show that you won't be getting non-essential cookies, of course when you click "Accept all" these settings get overridden.
Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by cgriswald on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @12:09PM (#24629557)
Not only an ad problem, but the sliders reminded me of a really bad UI feature I see everywhere: ambiguous highlighting when there are only two options.
Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by 72deluxe on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @07:12PM (#24634145)
I find some of the sliders for on/off are impossible to read. You can't work out what is on or off.

Windows 3.11 / 95 UI seems such a good idea by comparison to today's UIs - checkboxes with obvious tick marks or X marks in them, radio buttons, buttons that look like actual buttons, scrollbars you can see without having to flail the mouse around just for them to appear, scrollbars that go the right way when you use the mouse wheel (ok that was Windows 98), maximise buttons that actually maximised a window without having to hold alt like on macOS these days...

Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by efreak on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @09:44PM (#24634996)
My dad is colorblind, and the red off/green on looks the same to him; the slight shadow showing the side the toggle is on often isn't dark enough to be obvious, especially when someone gets cute and makes the slider pill-style (the button part takes up exactly half the space, with a vertical line down the middle). I expect this to be less common with mobile OS downtime features that encourage users to get off their screens by going grayscale.
Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by tomjen3 on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @03:10PM (#24642498)
I don't know why everybody went to a flat design. Seriously Apple should have stuck with their it looks like things design.