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submitted 4 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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[-] rothaine@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago

I bought a dryer and it has "AI Dry." Which I'm fairly sure is not. It's just the "sensor dry" feature that dryers have had for decades. Except I can't control the amount of heat (no "low heat" option) so it ends up being fairly useless. This is also the default option whenever the dryer turns on, so yay.

[-] selkiesidhe@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

We recently bought a dryer and it's "eco mode" means we gotta run it two or three times before things are dry. How the eff is that eco at all???

Don't get me started on eco on the washer. Too late, it means there won't be enough water to COVER ALL THE CLOTHES.

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[-] Krudler@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

Putting a bunch of unskippable bullshit in front of a game I'm doing to play.

I don't need to know how much you all jerk yourself off to your own studio's logo.. I just wanna play. Can you get that shit out of my face please or let me courtesy-skip it after 1 second?

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 14 points 4 months ago

Cameras and microphones in "smart" TVs. There's a reason why when the current TV I use as a monitor dies that I'd be more than willing to take it to a repair shop than replace it.

Also, on the subject of that TV, I'd be lucky to find a modern model that's even half of double the size of my current one. It feels impossible to find anything anywhere near 1080x1920 resolution. Maybe I'm bad at finding them, but you know, finding anything like that from known, reputable companies today. Hell, I even looked at a few Japanese brands from their Japanese websites and all the models were looking like American super sized models.

[-] k_rol@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 months ago

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 4 months ago

Going to present an alternative take.

[-] GluWu@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

Deciding that your waist is at your belly button just feels like an anatomical miscalculation to me.

[-] qevlarr@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

Getting cutesy with the OK button label

Got it, Take me there, Understood

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[-] Strider@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

Removing or replacing decades old proven and studied ui elements because fuck you user.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

Big garages on the front of houses, with front door hidden. Hate Hate Hate the garage houses with my whole soul.

[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 9 points 4 months ago

They're called "snout houses," because the garage makes them look like they have a big, ugly pig snout.

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[-] VampirePenguin@midwest.social 11 points 4 months ago

Light themes as default. I don't want to be maced with photons. Dark themes always please.

[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] Kissaki@feddit.org 11 points 4 months ago

So many things. Most things seem designed against humans instead of for them. Most are designed to supposedly look pretty, when I'm someone looking for content and information. Those are often hidden. Add to that malpractice, misleading, and lying.

[-] Widdershins@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

I would like to change the radio station in a school zone and not run over a bunch of kids because I had to take my eyes off the road. Touchscreens are more distracting to use than my phone, which I don't like to use while driving because it is distracting enough.

Touchscreens absolutely do not belong in cars and I hope my car with buttons doesn't fucking die before the trend dies.

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[-] Quazatron@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

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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[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago

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:

[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago
  1. the lets put a lot of shit in the title bar of our app trend. Fuck off, I use that bar to pull the window around.
  2. The idea that I should adapt to the technology, and not the other way around. Don't force changes on me, especially when they're only implemented to be able to slap a new version number on the box.
[-] thisNotMyName@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

All the app icons looking the same. Most prominent example are all the Google apps, but it doesn't end there.

[-] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Pants and suits coming in slim fit. Went to Macy's, they had like 5-6 of the maybe 8 clothing things with only slim fit. Mf this is fucking McDs loving USA. Ain't nobody got time for that slim fit nonsense. Why do people not realize that shit also makes the rise some uncomfortable? At that point you just hate have testicles to the point that you may as well admit you're into a fetish.

[-] goosehorse@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

I'm a skinny American, and it's very difficult to find clothes that fit me right---always has been.

Tried on a pair of slim cut jeans the other day in a box store, and the thigh fit like a pair of pantaloons. This is partly due to the trend toward baggier fits (kill me), and even one of my go-to brands sits a little more loosely than I'd like, at the moment.

On one hand, I can still walk into the store I shopped at in high school, pick up my size and cut of pant, and walk out without trying them on, knowing that they will work. On the other hand, I'd like to walk into a store for adults and be able to find my size in a cut that fits.

I knew two years ago when I saw that rich white lady wearing what looked like Jncos for rich white ladies that I was about to get fucked by the resurgence of late 90s fashion styles. Baggy doesn't look good on someone who looks like they were built out of toothpicks.

All this to say: chin up! Your time is coming!

[-] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Long winding UI Dialouge trees that you can get "stuck" in! If my settings are invalid, let me out of of the menu with as little consiquences and sacrifices as you can manage. I may need to back out to go grab data or change a setting on a page you decided to make before (hell even after) the one that wont let me continue and/or go back.

Windows's "wizard" style dialouges just suck!

[-] qevlarr@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Rounded corners everywhere

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[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 7 points 4 months ago

Rounded screen corners.

[-] vane@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's very hard to find unique colors these days. Everything is becoming color graded for digital. That means everything starts looking the same because screen displays are limited, especially in the web.

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[-] zazous@lemmy.funami.tech 6 points 4 months ago

San-serif fonts across everything.

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[-] EighteenthNerd@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Apartment complex websites that photoshop (outright lie) about what the apartment is like and you're not allowed to see the actual place before renting (current tenant is still there, or the manager/owner just doesn't want you to see even if it's empty). And - there's so much competition for apartments in the area you either sign the lease sight-unseen or you live in your car.

I've done OK in some of these. None were what the website pics and descriptions offered, but they were still OK. Some others, though, turned out to be absolute broken down dumps. And every single one of these places have great online reviews. Imagine that.

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