Too Many Knobs
I&#x27;ve noticed a trend in many web apps to stop doing something that used to be standard<p>It&#x27;s this: you&#x27;re displaying a list of things that have various properties. It used to be the case that you&#x27;re be allowed to sort and filter by any property. Many web apps nowadays seem to &#x27;curate&#x27; my sort and filter options and in many cases a particular use is crippled because the property I want to sort or filter by is one that the author deemed a minority use-case.<p>Now the programming cost of allowing filtering by anything is minimal. The cognitive load on the user is minimal (once you&#x27;ve got the UI for one property then adding more doesn&#x27;t make much difference)<p>I&#x27;ve found this deeply frustrating on many occasions.