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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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[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

These indicators help in troubleshooting. If the indicator says the device should be swiveling, but doesn’t swivel, you know it’s broken. If there’s no indicator, you might think you’re just too stupid to put it in swiveling mode.

Old-fashioned switches, of course, solved this problem without LEDs.

[–] Kvoth@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

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

[–] sanderium@lemmy.zip 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)
  • 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

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[–] cattywampas@lemm.ee 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Minimalism.

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

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The open floor plan was the beginning of our demise.

Almighty Profit Motive(TM) forbid we proles find any semblance of joy in our lives and - gasp - interact with the physical world around us in any meaningful and engaged way!

No, we must be deprived of all dopamine outside of our designated corporate brainrot centers.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (10 children)

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

[–] brap@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

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

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

My house is a reddish brown with a green metal roof. My cars are black, red, and yellow, and I do everything I can to make sure that I am surrounded by at least some kind of light and color at all times.

If I was dating a girl and I found out that she was a sad beige mom, that would be the end of the relationship.

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 week ago (4 children)
  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.
[–] shutz@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What's the point of smartphone colors that will get completely covered by the phone case? And don't tell me phone cases are not necessary, I've accidentally dropped my phone enough times!

(I'm on my 4th smartphone in about 12 years, and I've never scratched or cracked a screen)

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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Someone on the design team heard that squircles are the latest shit and put zero thought into implementing them.

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[–] Substance_P@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week 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.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

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[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 19 points 1 week ago

Infinite scroll

Enshitification of search results when shopping

Planned obsolescence

[–] HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week 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 1 week ago (1 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

[–] moonlight@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yes this is so dumb. Razor thin phone with massive camera bumps. Who is asking for this?

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Especially when the first thing you do is get a case to protect the cameras and make the phone sit level on a table

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think that's kind of the thing. They can't physically make the camera any smaller, but they assume you're going to make the phone thicker with a case. So it's a compromise based on customer preference.

[–] moonlight@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well ideally they would just make the phone more durable without a case, and the full thickness of the camera filled with battery, headphone jack, etc.

Seriously so much smartphone design is based on initial appeal, not actual usability.

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[–] severalkittens@ani.social 5 points 1 week ago

I love my Xperia, still has bezels and it makes the phone easier to hold imo

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

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

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[–] k_rol@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

Going to present an alternative take.

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[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week 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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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 7 points 1 week ago

Rounded screen corners.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Probably preaching to the choir but: Corporate Memphis

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
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