> "A flat design UI reduces cognitive load!"

Oh really, Google? If that is your aim, then how come you increase cognitive load by making pull-to-refresh mandatory on your mobile web browser, which constantly has to be avoided by the user?

Seems like a you issue
Pull to refresh doesn't ever happen unintentionally or when scrolling, only if you're already at the very top and then pull again

@devRancid Indeed it does. Just websearch "how to disable pull-to-refresh in Chrome" and you will see what I mean.

Is there any evidence for the the claim that flat ui reduces cognitive load? I doubt that.

@devRancid That's the intent, yes, but what "the top" means exactly is ambiguous on any responsive website, most of which will have at least a few elements conditionally fixed to the viewport. Anything within these, even if they are scrollable, may accidentally be recognized as already being at the top. Furthermore, if you scroll sideways within a 100dvh container and then scroll up, it will attempt to scroll the document, which is always at the top.

Intuitive gestures can be a fucking godsend, but clunky gestures can make me so frustrated. Agree on pull-to-refresh, it gets confounded with other pulling gestures (scrolling, mainly) and is often-enough misinterpreted to be bad UX

flat ui is a horrible trend. if you find another front-end developer who designs buttons looking exactly like their surrounding while not being obvious it's a clickable element, please bash their head with a rake

Same Google whose pagespeed tool will complain about 'Unused JavaScript' when loading their own Gtag script using the snippet they provide.