Scrollbars. Ever heard of them? They’re pretty cool. Click and drag on a scrollbar and you can move content around in a scrollable content pane. I love that shit. Every day I am scrolling on my computer, all day long. But the scrollbars are getting smaller and this is increasingly becoming a problem. I would show you screenshots but they’re so small that even screenshotting them is hard to do. And people keep making them even smaller, hiding them away, its like they don’t want you to scroll! “Ah”, they say, “that’s what the scroll wheel is for”. My friend, not everyone can use a scroll wheel or a swipe up touch screen. And me, a happy scroll-wheeler, even I would like to quickly jump around some time.
Honestly, for such a crucial element, it is infuriating how bad some software gets them. Between narrow, auto-hiding scrollbars and developers who don’t understand how rage-inducing scroll-jacking is, it is enough to make me back out of a site / application and either discard what I was going or find an alternative immediately.
Out of interest, why do you use a Wacom tablet as your primary input design, and how do you find using it that way?