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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As other mentioned, lack of physical buttons.
Minimalistic interfaces in software:
- In websites they waste a lot of real estate on the monitor.
- They make harder to find things navigating menus and submenus that should have the settings you are looking for but they decided that it should be better to bury it somewhere else.
Apps and websites copying the designs/colour scheme of popular ones. How many Slack looking websites are too much?
Copying IKEA furniture design, I don’t like most of IKEA designs and the sensation of making your personal space identical to thousands of other people personal spaces. I don’t have an issue with IKEA itself, my issue is that you try to find alternatives looking elsewhere and is the same thing, sometimes inspired, sometimes a clear copy, and most of the time even worse quality.
I’ve been looking for a wall shelf for almost a year and it seemed that every company, every store had the same ugly designs varying a little and with different prices. I’ve just bought one that it was the less ugly I could find, it was expensive and the materials quality is crap.
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.
Scrollbars that are impossible.to use because they auto.minimize , and you have to get them just right to slide.
“Squircles”, Just make shit square you fuckers I hate you
Theres somthing off about th econflicting uniformity of a grid of squircles.
Light themes as default. I don’t want to be maced with photons. Dark themes always please.
Counter offer: dark themes as default for professional software.
I don’t write software in a dimly light geek cave, I do it in a well lit office. And I can’t tell that dark red string from the background.
I need to add another one. All modern anime, to me, seems look the same. Like a lot the same. Homogenous. And unfortunately just not at all visually interesting. It’s preventing me from even attempting to get into anything new, because I honestly can’t visually tell the differences anymore. What happened to the artistry? For instance:
BLUE LEDs!! Because you don’t need your eyesight anyway, might as well completely blind you, right?
Oh, let’s make it even better. BLUE DISPLAYS!! Because now you fucking really can’t read it! Ha-HA!
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.
That appley design. Mouse, keyboard, bubbley UI it all just disgusts me and I hate that it affects Windows 11
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
Endless scrolling over pagination
Your counciousness hates it, and your unconsciousness loves it
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Nothing is ever done, even when it evolves to a great functional state that everyone is familiar with, and it works perfectly well. No, we need to fiddle with it to “keep it fresh” which inevitably makes it worse in some way.
iOS Photos app is a textbook example of this
Every appliance, monitor, speaker, clock, really anything that plugs in has to have a blue LED.
Got a modem from the cable company installed in my bedroom, the indicator lights were bright enough to read by.
The problem I have isn’t so much that they’re blue, but that they’re bright. I have flashlights with modes dimmer than the average modern indicator LED.
Get some blue-tack and blind all those blinkers!
The lights have use, I cover them with black electrical tape to dim them sufficiently
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.
Worse than the squircle button design?
- the height of the “Home” button isn’t even the same as the rest of the other buttons
- no spacing between the buttons
- the element surrounding those buttons don’t even contain buttons properly
- lack of proper spacing between the buttons and the containing element
I am not wanting vast swathes of white space between elements, but if you’re giving them background colors so that you indicate where the user can click (and thus interact with the button) at least have some decency to give them some breathing room. Sure, when hovering you can add an effect such that it either changes color, brightness, or gains a glowy border or what have you, but most of the time none of those elements are hovered! You’d be seeing them all crammed together like sardines in a tube!!
Oh, and I got so riled up that I didn’t even address that out of place “ExtraCare scan in store” element. Why is it even covering the “Discover” text? Was the foreground some interactive element that just popped up?
Sorry. The more I try to make sense of the UI, the more I think rounded/squircle buttons are the least of the problems there.
Your point are all 100% spot on. Also why would the “Scan in store” thing pop up when I’m in my bedroom?
Also why would the “Scan in store” thing pop up when I’m in my bedroom?
When I try using geolocation for my desktop or my phone connected to my home wifi, it is as if I were in the same building as my ISPs offices (or maybe servers?) I suppose it’s the same over there. Maybe there’s a CVS near (same building?) your ISPs offices.
Someone on the design team heard that squircles are the latest shit and put zero thought into implementing them.
How was this person hired onto a design team?! You can’t even read the full button text because it’s cut off for no reason!!
