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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. And then having the nerve to tell you to download the mobile app ๐Ÿ˜‘
  • Why does everything need to be an app by the way? Especially when the only advantage the app gives you over the website is that you're not constantly spammed with messages telling you to use the app... Are you making your website shittier on purpose so I feel like I have to use the app?... I don't WANT your app, you can shove it where the sun doesn't shine.
  • Actually EVERYTHING looks like it's made for a phone... Like what's the deal with all those hamburger menus on DESKTOP software? 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. You know, "keyboards"? Those things that people on DESKTOPS use?
  • All phones look the same. All laptops look the same. It's boring as hell.
  • Laptops must be as thin and flimsy as possible. Bonus points if you can't even fit an ethernet port.
  • I'm so sick of rounded corners everywhere... ๐Ÿ˜ญ
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[โ€“] black0ut@pawb.social 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)
  • Rounded corners. Everywhere. They lose so much space, especially on small screens, and everything feels crammed.

  • No personalization anywhere. You used to be able to completely customize social media profiles, to the point of editing your page's CSS directly.

  • Modern OSes (except linux or BSD based ones which are not android) also have no color or personalization. You usually have the slabs of white on light mode, or the slabs of blak on dark mode, with only one color you can choose for some details.

  • JavaScript animations on every. Single. Website. I have an old phone (because I don't like modern stuff), and it struggles with almost every modern, animated site. Is it really necessary to add all that js and animations?

  • No headphone jacks or expandable storage on modern phones. It probably costs cents to add those features. I know phones don't usually have expandable storage because it makes you buy a new one once you fill all your storage, and I know they don't have audio jacks because it makes you buy the company's wireless headphones, but I need those features in my phone.

  • Why does everything have to be a web app now? Have people forgotten about actual softwate, that you own, that doesn't need internet to work, that uses almost no resources and is faster and has more features than a web app? We got everything backward. Sites that should be webs like reddit will ask you to download their apps, while microsoft will try to code Word in javascript and sell it to you as an "upgrade".

  • I hate subscriptions with passion, especially for software.

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[โ€“] Rom@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Why does everything need to be an app by the way?

So they can track you and collect your data.

On that same note, every appliance being designed with internet connectivity when there's no conceivable reason for it to be there. No, I don't want my fridge or my thermostat or my coffee maker to connect to the internet. And I am never going to put one of those ~~surveillance devices~~ smart speakers in my home, ever.

[โ€“] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

But if you don't, how will they charge you a subscription for continued usage of your fridge?

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I loath the modern obsession with minimalist, utilitarian design. Everything is just a white, black, or grey slab with no artistic thought put into its form. Buildings, homes, cars, clothes, electronic devices. It's almost like a capitalist version of brutalism. Even the design of user interfaces is usually a pile of flat, washed out rectangles now. It's like the soul has been sucked out of everything we make, reduced to it's most basic form. It can feel anti-human at times. Like the world has collectively decided that beauty is a waste of time.

[โ€“] pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 week ago

Car centric cities by far. Bring back walkable neighborhoods and give me options to move around instead of only being able to be stuck inside a car

[โ€“] bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The advantage of an app is that they can use more permissions etc to spy on you even more compared to your browser.

And don't forget the biggest plus; they can also sell your data! Isn't that wonderful?

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[โ€“] scytale@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

QR coding everything. It has it uses and is practical in certain use-cases, but don't use it everywhere.

[โ€“] JillyB@beehaw.org 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm paranoid but it also seems very insecure. I've been to some restaurants where they have the menu as a qr code and you even pay for your food from the website. What's to stop a bad actor from creating a fake version of your website and stealing card data? They just need to create a qr sticker and put it on top of the one on the table.

Thatโ€™s actually a huge problem and I donโ€™t get why it is not talked about more. We all learn about validating links in emails and are very careful about clicking anything there. But QR codes we just scan and open without thinking.

[โ€“] zippo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

saw a mall once that didn't have its hours printed or posted anywhere and only had a printed-out QR code u had to scan if u wanted to check the hours. turned my ass right tf around and never came back.

[โ€“] charonn0@startrek.website 23 points 1 week ago

UI elements that expand and cover up other UI elements when you mouse over them.

"Flat" color schemes where you can't even tell where one UI element ends and the other begins.

Infinite scroll instead of pagination.

[โ€“] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

PC towers that light up like a warehouse rave. I don't need to signal to Rohan that my house calls for aid. It's why I've stuck with a Fractal Design for the past 7 years.

The fancy light bullshit should be add-ons for people who want it, not baked in for everyone who don't. And you just know they're slapping a 200% premium on those shitty lights into the cost of the tower.

[โ€“] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

I'm on Linux which isn't able to control the RGB lighting so it's rainbows forever.

[โ€“] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

I was looking at pc parts recently and not only was there RGB towers... but also RGB CPU. And RGB GPU. And RGB RAM. And RGB fan. RGB pretty much everything... I guess now your computer can double as disco ball should the need arise

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[โ€“] Cherry@piefed.social 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Smart everything. Iโ€™m buying second hand TVs simply so they are not marketing to me as soon as I turn it on.

Terms of design I feel like since postmodern we have had a bastardisation of flat design which was really mostly suited to information design but it got shoved on everything hence the monochrome blandness. On the other side we got a bastardisation of arts and crafts maybe where people tried to digitally replicate traditional methods, we got hand lettering stamping etc. then they swished them together and true design got shoved out the window in favour of , how can we grab the users attention, to
how can we hold the viewer captive, to
How can we force the viewer to absorb, to The how can we annoy the viewer so much they will pay to just read/view in peace.

I am not sure what this design movement will be called

[โ€“] daggermoon@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Electronics that are damn-near impossible for anyone but a professional to repair.

I've recently determined for myself, specifically for this reason, any devices I want around my home for the future I plan to build myself.

A project box, a raspberry pi, and a few components can go a really long way.

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[โ€“] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Corporate Memphis, and Iโ€™ll get ahead of the curve, whatever its successor is. Probably some kind of AI-chic.

[โ€“] jimmux@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

I suspect Corporate Memphis is partly successful because it works with ambiguous skin colours, so it automatically ticks diversity boxes without the artist having to think too hard about representation.

My prediction is that the successor will double down on that. I hope it's cartoony style anthropomorphic animals.

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[โ€“] borokov@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Prompting.

Remember the day where you have to type commands on a terminal to do anything and some guy came up with "button" and "windows" and suddenly you could print yo document with a single click ?

Oh, cool, let's bring back the trend of speaking to your computer through a text area !

Fuck LLM.

[โ€“] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The home, back, and switch app buttons on Android being replaced with that bar like on the iPhone.

I especially miss the back button, swiping from the edge of the screen is nowhere near as ergonomic. It also replaced the ability to reveal the side panel by swiping from the left edge, so now you have to tap the hamburger menu way up at the top left corner of the screen for it, which requires either your other hand or you have to shimmy the phone down your hand until you can reach it.

Also, when you have a full screen video playing, you have to swipe up once to reveal the bar, and then again to actually close out of the app. That made sense with buttons but why the hell is it still the case with the bar?

Double tapping the switch app button to switch between the two most recent apps was also more convenient than swiping up to reveal the app manager and dragging the window to the right, and when you want to go to the previous app, whether it's on the right or left side of the current one seems to depend on how long you've been on the app for, which means you can never build up muscle memory since it changes all the time.

Another case of Google trying to imitate Apple's UX but seemingly not actually doing any of the usability testing and polishing that Apple does, and generally making it both worse than Apple's implementation and worse than what was there before.

[โ€“] Trev625@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago

You can bring back the old control scheme! You can even flip it which my gf uses cause it's easier for her to reach.

[โ€“] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

Everything in cars being replaced by screens. If auto manufacturers could figure out how to make the steering wheel a screen, they would. Impossible to work on those things.

[โ€“] vfreire85@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
  • houses designed as if they were some private plastic surgeon's office;
  • neopentec churches with black walls.
[โ€“] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 7 points 1 week ago

Interrupted garden paths. Like stepping stones in lawn. Just put a continual path. Stepping stones are terrible for access and maintenance. Just grass or just paving would be preferable.

[โ€“] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
  • lights on everything
  • diagonal house, what are you even doing?
  • Increased phone power matched by increased surveillance and advertising
  • hats not having an extra space to remove sweat and warm sticky air. Bring back lifted asian conical hats!
  • App and website having different functionality, and you have to use the app
[โ€“] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Whatโ€™s a diagonal house? I image searched it but still not clear.

[โ€“] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Slanted house, apparently. Just taking up extra space and annoying to place furniture.

[โ€“] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

FUCKING MATERIAL DESIGN AND ALL IT'S RELATIVES!

FUCK YOU, WHOEVER DESIGNED THIS SHIT.

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[โ€“] BlindFrog@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I used to be able to point to ling's cars as a holdout of fun web page design, but they've changed v.v

https://web.archive.org/web/20110108151026/https://www.lingscars.com/

Flat pack furniture. Everything being reduced to the cheapest to make and cheapest to ship.

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