[CoryAlexMartin]

It’s very funny and strange that one of the defining characteristics of modern GUI design is that everything is very large. Lots of whitespace, buttons twice as tall as the cursor, windows that have to be maximized in order to see more than seven lines of content, and yet the scrollbars are the size of a toothpick.

[jamincan]

I suspect both of those trends are related to designing mobile-first.

[demoklion]

Common misconception. This would be so called mobile only as opposed to mobile first, which fits data to increasingly larger viewports.

[zo1]

And the entire content area for some no-longer-relevant reason is maxed at 1000px. It's like the designers got stuck with bootstrap from 2014 and can't seem to get unstuck.

[hulitu]

everything that doesn't count is very large. Things that count are small. I always have to scale Windows to 150% or 125 % because of that.