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Original question text by @phantomwise@lemmy.ml

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.
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[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Rounded corners everywhere

[–] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago

IMO that actually looks nice most of the time.

[–] Substance_P@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days 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.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

The trend to more complicated but cheaper instead of doing it right. Result is news about security incidents every single day.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 19 points 2 days ago

Infinite scroll

Enshitification of search results when shopping

Planned obsolescence

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That appley design. Mouse, keyboard, bubbley UI it all just disgusts me and I hate that it affects Windows 11

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Shame because Apple design language came from one of the most humanistic designers of the 20th century: Deiter Rams. It's sad to see his philosophy be so misused by 21st cent. tech companies

[–] HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I don’t understand why they need the have the lenses in a bump. Just make the phone a bit thicker with a bigger battery

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[–] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Long winding UI Dialouge trees that you can get "stuck" in! If my settings are invalid, let me out of of the menu with as little consiquences and sacrifices as you can manage. I may need to back out to go grab data or change a setting on a page you decided to make before (hell even after) the one that wont let me continue and/or go back.

Windows's "wizard" style dialouges just suck!

[–] Hexagon@feddit.it 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Apps/websites that log you out too frequently for no good reason

[–] Bongles@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They all have 2 factor authentication too. Sometimes I just want to be in another room than my god damn phone.

[–] Droechai@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

I think USB finger scanners are quite cheap though

[–] k_rol@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

High wasted jeans, they make your legs look too long and your butt to be infinitely high, I still love you though.

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago

Going to present an alternative take.

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[–] vane@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

It's very hard to find unique colors these days. Everything is becoming color graded for digital. That means everything starts looking the same because screen displays are limited, especially in the web.

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[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Boring flat dark design interfaces.

I miss the CDE colour scheme. The BeOS funky 3D icons. Buttons that look like buttons. Tabs that look like tabs. Now everything is just flat, bland and monochromatic. It's sad.

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[–] OceanSoap@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I haven't seen it much in the last year or so, but Corporate Memphis art style in any and all tech was causing so much rage inside of me. I'm so relieved it's not so much a thing anymore, but for a few years it was everywhere.

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