Related UI elements should not appear unrelated
15 hours ago
- UI design trend where related elements appear increasingly detached from each other, e.g., tabs floating separately from content windows.
- Historical comparison: Chrome 2010 and Firefox 2015 had clear connections between tabs and content, while modern Firefox (v.148 and Nova) shows extreme separation with floating bubbles.
- Criticism: This design loses space and creates false separation, contradicting the natural connection between tabs and their content windows.
- Suggestion: Active tab should be connected to its content window, with inactive tabs as floating bubbles, for better usability.