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I think toggle switches are newer and therefore designers think they are more fancy to use.

I am not a designer, but I've always heard that the difference between checkboxes and toggles is that toggles are expected to immediately produce side effects whereas checkboxes aren't.

That is to say, clicking on a checkbox shouldn't immediately mutate some state, whereas activating a toggle should.

No such thing as a "designer." They are less credentialed than a "software engineer."

Cuz they ugly

The dribblization of UI lead to a bunch of people trying to make things pretty for their own benefit. Then they look at it in Figma and it looks absolutely stunning. Never mind that actually needs to be understood and used by someone, that’s irrelevant.

Just today I saw a HSL color slider on Twitter that was a single hue slider with two half-arc sliders on the main slider’s handle: one above for saturation, one below for lightness. It sounds like a joke but…

https://twitter.com/jh3yy/status/1756429165803246028