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Is there a rather presumably minor flaw that annoys you due to repetition?

That's called a microfrustration.

Examples:

  • Since Android 7, Bluetooth devices such as car Hi-Fi's can control your phone's output volume.
  • Android quick setting menu since Lollipop: Unable to interact during tedious unroll animation.
  • Android quick setting menu since Lollipop: Unclear border between scrolling notifications and accidential menu retraction +wobbly unfold animation.
  • Google Chrome for Android: Pull-to-refresh.
  • Samsung camera app prioritizes system screen rotation over actually capturing the photo or video.
  • Galaxy S7 / S7 Edge slow motion (720p@240fps) feature occasionally skips a few frames.
  • "Save as" file managers (or whatever they're called) replace (clobber) by default, instead of renaming.
  • Samsung clipboard limit: 20 items.
  • Video recording on mobile phones: If starting while phone held vertically (in urgent moment), the entire video gets saved as ugly rotated vertical video instead of horizontal video.
  • Mobile phone camera: Accidentally launching burst mode.

This is just the tip of the iceberg.

There are countless more.

Get the microfrustrations off your chest here.

Is there a rather presumably minor flaw that annoys you due to repetition? That's called a *microfrustration*. # Examples: * Since Android 7, Bluetooth devices such as car Hi-Fi's can control your phone's output volume. * Android quick setting menu since Lollipop: Unable to interact **during** tedious unroll animation. * Android quick setting menu since Lollipop: Unclear border between scrolling notifications and accidential menu retraction +wobbly unfold animation. * Google Chrome for Android: Pull-to-refresh. * Samsung camera app prioritizes system screen rotation over actually capturing the photo or video. * Galaxy S7 / S7 Edge slow motion (720p@240fps) feature occasionally skips a few frames. * "Save as" file managers (or whatever they're called) **replace** (clobber) by default, instead of **renaming.** * Samsung clipboard limit: 20 items. * Video recording on mobile phones: If starting while phone held vertically (in urgent moment), the entire video gets saved as ugly rotated vertical video instead of horizontal video. * Mobile phone camera: Accidentally launching burst mode. This is just the tip of the iceberg. There are **countless more.** ## **Get the microfrustrations off your chest here.**

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I have some frustrations with Windows and Microsoft Office products, but I feel these may be macrofrustrations. How does one know the difference?

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Sorry for late reply.

Different people might perceive it somewhat differently.

Macrofrustrations

Macrofrustrations tend to be more actively discussed in forums because they are more obvious and more consciously noticeable.

General examples:

  • Blue screen of death
  • Missing important feature
  • Non-replaceable battery
  • Unexpected reboots
  • Unexpected data loss (e.g. because the text editor or office software didn't recover it properly).
  • Browser fails to recover session after crash → tabs lost.
  • Important removed feature in Android (such as Android 4.4.2's MicroSD clusterfsck (no pun intended for fsck Linux tool) ).

Microfrustrations

Microfrustrations are short, rather subconsciously perceivable annoyances in details that initially seem rather trivial, but grow more and more annoying and frustrating with time and each repetition.

Examples of these have already been mentioned in the original post, but here are some more that come to mind:

Examples:

  • USB charger does not compensate for voltage drops (youtube.com) in the wires.
  • No more icons (1.bp.blogspot.com) in drop down / option menus (toxic minimalism trend by Apple) = entries take somewhat longer to find.
  • User interface animations that add inertia during navigation.
  • User interface animations that get interrupted when tapping too early (e.g. Android quick setting menu: the semi-triangle at the upper right corner that points down, which shows more quick setting toggles when tapped that can also be accessed when swiping down from the initially shown icons of the notification menu).
  • Features or settings moved to a different place where they are less convenient to access.
  • Samsung Galaxy S6 / higher: Camera settings on a separate page (technobezz.com) instead of steadily accessible without needing to unload/load the camera viewfinder (i.ytimg.com).

These are things one does not pay attention to on the first glance, but over time, they start increasingly bothering the user.

Users tend to complain less about microfrustrations due to falsely thinking that nobody else cares, while they actually do.