What common UI issues or glitches annoy you the most?

Question

This one just happened to me, but it&rsquo;s as old as they come. You click something, the interface registers the click (via an animation or sound or whatever), but then nothing happens. I hate that so much.

mindcrime · Accepted Answer

User interface elements that move around. Dear FSM, I can't tell you how many times I've started to click/tap some element on the screen only to find that by the time I completed the movement of my mouse/finger, the "thing" I was trying to click was in a different place and I wound up clicking something else. F%#@ng Youtube gets me with this all the time when watching videos in a playlist. The next video starts, and go to click the pause button, and by the time I click, where the pause button was, is now the back button.

RGamma · Answer

The fact that Windows 10 can't do windows, most especially on multi-monitor setups with a docked laptop that I sometimes take with me.
Windows closed maximized that don't open again maximized but in weird places (Outlook especially) or the "new trend" where they open with the same dimensions but are not actually in the maximized state (Docker Desktop).
The fact that you can't drag windows if their draggable parts are offscreen (particularly painful if the window bar is used for buttons etc and has only a tiny part where you can grab). Also ignoring Fitts's law, mostly concerning the close button.
The virtual desktop thing sometimes takes ages to load or crashes explorer.exe and often does not change the desktop when I tell it to (it goes back to the same one). Combine this with weird "flickering" that happens sometimes and it looks really fragile.
Once I had a two instances of PBI Desktop that were minimized but couldn't be unminimized again. Selecting them from the virtual desktop overview just made them appear briefly in the middle of the desktop with wrong dimensions only to fade away a split second later (fixed by going single-monitor and back).
Autostart applications that briefly flash a window and steal your focus (Bitwarden).
Task manager has this weird problem where in some situations trying to sort by a different column takes like 5 seconds and meanwhile the mouse cursor lags and stutters.
Oh, and rearranging my desktop icons when Windows feels like.
Overall things feel so slow and brittle at times it's maddening. There's more but can't be bothered now...