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.
  • stoy@lemmy.zip
    26·
    11 days ago
    1. Blue LEDs are BORING! You have the entire specturm of colors, stop using only blue!
    2. Touch buttons are terrible, and should be illegal in cars.
    3. Flat UI design is boring and lazy, give me the UI design from the Ubuntu Humanity theme in Ubuntu 9.04, that shit was great!
    4. SUVs all look the same, they are boring and too big, hot hatchbacks are great!
    5. Smartphone design has stagnated, you used to be able to get some cool colors, but that has mostly gone away, folding phones are an interesting development though…
    6. Stop building boring grey buildings that looks like boxes, get some jugend or cool brickwork buildings (do NOT paint the brick building!)
    7. Stop tracking everything we do, I just read about how Meta is using a new secret tracking technique that enable tracking ocer VPNs and other services, soon we will all need a sound isolated anechoic chamber with an airlock that you only enter through a double faraday cage with a full body hazmat suit to access a dedicated burner device to access a specific service, I don’t want that, enough is enough.
    • BenLeMan@lemmy.world
      10·
      11 days ago

      Blue LEDs are eye piercing, especially when they are always on and you are trying to sleep in the same room.

    • grue@lemmy.world
      8·
      11 days ago

      Blue LEDs are BORING! You have the entire specturm of colors, stop using only blue!

      Sad Shuji Nakamura noises

      I mean, sure, they’re overused now, but that’s because they were such a breakthrough that the dude got a well-deserved Nobel prize for finally figuring out how to invent them. Think about it: it’s not just blue that they made possible, it’s the whole spectrum and white, too. If it weren’t for blue LEDs, we’d still be stuck using CFLs.

      See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF8d72mA41M

      • stoy@lemmy.zip
        7·
        11 days ago

        I understand that they were a huge achievement, that is not in question, their overuse was.

    • shutz@lemmy.ca
      72·
      11 days ago

      What’s the point of smartphone colors that will get completely covered by the phone case? And don’t tell me phone cases are not necessary, I’ve accidentally dropped my phone enough times!

      (I’m on my 4th smartphone in about 12 years, and I’ve never scratched or cracked a screen)