User control, flexibility, and Netflix’s clickless scrolling

I wasn’t wild about Netflix’s recent redesign at first. I thought the prior version of their site was solid, and no major issues jumped out at me.

screenshot of netflix user interface
Netflix’s UI redesign removes the click-to-scroll arrows

Netflix web streaming is something that I actually use quite a bit, so any change was bound to cause a little friction. Because of that I decided to hold off judgement for a bit, in order to evaluate the changes from less of a “get off my lawn” perspective. A month later I’ve gotten used to almost all the changes, but one thing still irks me: I don’t like the switch to clickless scrolling.

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