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1.) Everything is a "smart" device. Household appliances, as a general rule, should not be connectable to the internet or require an app.

Cheaper components, poor build quality, and lack of user serviceable parts are the primary reasons your washer and dryer last 10 years compared to your parents Maytag set that was still ticking away after 30. Cheap, unnecessary electronics, which don't have as long a lifespan as mechanical timers and switches, only exacerbate this problem.

2.) Cordless tools as a means of vendor locking customers.

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.

Give me back my God damn full keyboard and headphone jack. (Phones)

• When interface shifts around due to information update (e.g new bluetooth devices found).
• When primary content in a website is hidden behind hover effects.
• Expensive animations, blur and gradients with no functionality.
• When an app treats me like a baby and asks me 20 questions one at a time instead of giving me a menu of options.
• Excesive round corners
• Excesive padding on apps.

I just really hate when webpages take 10 seconds to load a cluttered mess of an interface with no sense of direction

Minimalism.

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

If I ever meet the asshole that invented the mouse-off function for webpages so that when you go to close a tab, a pop-up jumps up so that the website owner can scream, "wait, no, please subscribe, give us your email, send us money, something holy fucking shit, dear god ah!" at you I swear I will break their fucking fingers and punch them in the dick.

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

1. Blue LEDs are BORING! You have the entire specturm of colors, stop using only blue!
2. Touch buttons are terrible, and should be illegal in cars.
3. Flat UI design is boring and lazy, give me the UI design from the Ubuntu Humanity theme in Ubuntu 9.04, that shit was great!
4. SUVs all look the same, they are boring and too big, hot hatchbacks are great!
5. Smartphone design has stagnated, you used to be able to get some cool colors, but that has mostly gone away, folding phones are an interesting development though...
6. Stop building boring grey buildings that looks like boxes, get some jugend or cool brickwork buildings (do NOT paint the brick building!)
7. Stop tracking everything we do, I just read about how Meta is using a new secret tracking technique that enable tracking ocer VPNs and other services, soon we will all need a sound isolated anechoic chamber with an airlock that you only enter through a double faraday cage with a full body hazmat suit to access a dedicated burner device to access a specific service, I don't want that, enough is enough.

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.

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.

Electron apps. Write native apps. I don’t need a simple todo app using 300MB of RAM.

Infinite scroll

Enshitification of search results when shopping

Planned obsolescence

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.

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

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

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.

Rounded screen corners.

Probably preaching to the choir but: Corporate Memphis

Dark themed apps and websites. Vertical video. Blurry photos and videos when it's done for "artistic reasons".

White.