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What are the modern design trends you hate most? Feel free to rant! Mine are:

  • Physical buttons are out of fashion, now EVERYTHING must have a touch screen instead! Especially if it makes the appliance more inconvenient to use. Like having to press a flimsy touch screen ten times to scroll through a washing machine’s programs instead of just turning a physical knob and pressing a physical start button.
  • Every website looks like it’s made for a phone and was vomited by the same app in slightly different flavors of vomit.
  • Actually EVERYTHING looks like it’s made for a phone… Like what’s the deal with all those hamburger menus on DESKTOP apps? Please just put a regular menu and same me some pointless clicking, it’s not like you’re lacking screen space. I especially hate that those menus can’t be opened from the keyboard like regular menus.
  • cattywampas@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    6 months ago

    Minimalism.

    It’s everywhere from company logos, to fast food interior design, and now the vexillology community swears by minimalist flag designs.

  • HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world
    9·
    6 months ago

    The removal of bezels on phones, the camera cutouts sometimes have issues and its all together worse, just for a technically larger screen, and Apps, so many apps are just packaged web browsers, but with more access to private information and such.

  • Substance_P@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    6 months ago

    Every electronic item whether it be a hot water kettle, air conditioner or an UPS backup in my camper, even my electric toothbrush has to make a noise, a bing or beep when either the things starts, changes phase or finishes.

  • defunct_punk@lemmy.worldBanned from communityEnglish
    8·
    6 months ago

    Nothing is fun anymore. Seriously. Modern designers do not design fun things anymore. No matter what it is, cell phones, cars, dining chairs, there is nothing fun. Nothing invites interaction. Nothing invites relationship building.

    I saw this thing the other day. The “Jack in a Box” Television by Timo Salli for the short-lived studio SNOWCRASH. Made in 1997. Where the fuck is this energy nowadays?? Everything looks either angry or bored with us now; antagonistic with no justification. Zero whimsy, zero intrigue. Why does this walmart toaster look like it wants to fight me? Designers’ personalities are erased with nothing to show for it but row after row of the same matte white or piano black plastic SHIT (30% OFF!)

  • yesman@lemmy.world
    6·
    6 months ago

    Every appliance, monitor, speaker, clock, really anything that plugs in has to have a blue LED.

    Got a modem from the cable company installed in my bedroom, the indicator lights were bright enough to read by.

      • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        The lights have use, I cover them with black electrical tape to dim them sufficiently

    • Zak@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months ago

      The problem I have isn’t so much that they’re blue, but that they’re bright. I have flashlights with modes dimmer than the average modern indicator LED.

  • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    6 months ago

    This button “style.” WTF even is this? It’s objectively and functionally terrible.

    Also McDonald’s brutalism. But then, I’m happy not to eat there.

  • Xaphanos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    6 months ago

    Colors. Society has been getting more monochrome for years. And now black and white houses are all over.

    • brap@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months ago

      Oh man yeah, everything’s monochrome. Grey houses, grey fences, white cars, grey window frames, grey kitchens. Everything is so dull.

  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    4·
    6 months ago
    1. No error messages, ever. Because apparently users hate information with all their heart and are at risk of burning down cities if they ever find out what the fuck went wrong with an application.
    2. Disappearing scroll bars
      • discount_door_garlic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        Uh oh! We made an oopsie 👉👈 sowwy we wost your data

        Two buttons on the bottom of the window:

        • “It’s okay fam!”

        and

        • “I’m a grumpy meanie who doesnt understand things happen!”
  • gabelstapler@feddit.org
    3·
    6 months ago

    The “toggle switch”. In the past we had these checkboxes. A black square. If it had a x or check mark in it, it meant this option was active, otherwise not.

    Now we have these fancy toggle switches. If it’s on the left side, is it on or off? What if it’s blue, or grey?

      • loiakdsf@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        6 months ago

        left is definetly not always off. i am curious what you mean by delayed effect that cannot also affect a checkbox. especially if some cookie settings now havetoggles with three options, each one in a different color, some just slide between the rightmosg and middle option etc.

        no matter what you say, this is not intuitive, a checkbox is! if there are more than two options, choose another ui element. foem over function is way too common for (at least my) comfort nowadays

  • spittingimage@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 months ago

    LED indicator lights on things that have nothing to indicate. Does an electric fan need an indicator? Will you be confused about whether it’s operating or not if it doesn’t have one? Oh, it’s in swivel mode! Good thing it told me that, or I might have thought it was swiveling for other reasons.

    • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      6 months ago

      Counter offer: dark themes as default for professional software.

      I don’t write software in a dimly light geek cave, I do it in a well lit office. And I can’t tell that dark red string from the background.

  • magic_lobster_party@fedia.io
    2·
    6 months ago

    Showing ”2 weeks ago” or ”1 month ago” instead of the actual date. ”1 month ago” can be anything between 30 days and 60 days ago.