I have to navigate an interface like this to access resources from my school and it jams my brain. I don’t know if it’s badly designed but my brain doesn’t know what to click or where to point my eyes when I’m looking for something. I literally have to read each element, visualize what the words represent, and compare it to a visualisation of the thing I’m looking for to guess what I need to click on which proves to be very cognitively straining. I know it sounds pathetically simple but it is an additional dopamine hurdle I have to overcome before I can do any homework or revision. I don’t have this problem on most webpages. I wonder whether it could be ADHD related because my classmates always seem to find relevant resources in the system for things that I turn to Google for because this page is so impermeable.
Here’s another example:
Because likely it’s a result of a dozen (at best) clueless managers accepting some kind of UI\UX with consensus. It’s a very slow process, but they want to micromanage everything that they can see and (they think) understand.