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.
  • grue@lemmy.world
    8·
    12 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·
      12 days ago

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