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

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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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[-] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 114 points 4 months ago

Showing ”2 weeks ago” or ”1 month ago” instead of the actual date. ”1 month ago” can be anything between 30 days and 60 days ago.

[-] dumnezo@lemm.ee 26 points 4 months ago

This makes my blood just boil. I can do math, you fuckers. I am aware of dates. I wanna know when this shit went online.

[-] camelbeard@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

We use gitlab and I knew my coworker commited something yesterday, I deployed a new version yesterday but I wasn't sure if I deployed before or after his commit. Why do they just show yester instead of a normal timestamp. Do these developers think we can't read?

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I honestly think a lot of it is that they have to keep twiddling with shit to have something to do.

These pieces of garbage have come across my desk as "requirements" too because they get copied and pasted from other "best of breed" apps from the web.

Most of the designers I've encountered in my day to day work love nothing better than to copy from other apps rather than actually think for fifteen seconds about how to design something.

[-] qevlarr@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

Even worse: "last week/month/year" lumps everything together when you start the next week/month/year

[-] nicerdicer@feddit.org 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The option is called "relative date" (as opposed to absolute date). On macos you can switch it off:

open Finder, go to list view
select very first item in hierarchy
click on the little triangle next to the (folder-)icon to expand but press the option key wihle doing so
hit "cmd" + "J" - a settings panel will open
there is a tick box that says "relative date" that needs to be disabled (unticked)
if you want to apply this settings as the new default setting for all finder windows, press the "apply as standard"-button at the bottom. All dates will show now the actual date instead of "today", "yesterday" and such.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

At least they usually show the real datetime on hover

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