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What are the modern design trends you hate most? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by phantomwise@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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 😑
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... 😭

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[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 7 points 3 days 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.

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] Cherry@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

Milano mepphis was one of the last hurrah of post modern. A decent trend at least. Corporate Memphis is an abomination. It’s like meeting Clint Eastwoods great grandchild who has a mullet, has no option on anything, and works as a real estate agent. It’s not wrong but lack of character and conviction is such a bore.

[–] jimmux@programming.dev 5 points 3 days 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.

[–] Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 3 days ago

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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.

[–] Trev625@lemm.ee 10 points 3 days 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.

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days 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