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. And then having the nerve to tell you to download the mobile app 😑
  • Why does everything need to be an app by the way? Especially when the only advantage the app gives you over the website is that you’re not constantly spammed with messages telling you to use the app… Are you making your website shittier on purpose so I feel like I have to use the app?.. I don’t WANT your app, you can shove it where the sun doesn’t shine.
  • Actually EVERYTHING looks like it’s made for a phone… Like what’s the deal with all those hamburger menus on DESKTOP software? 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. You know, “keyboards”? Those things that people on DESKTOPS use?
  • All phones look the same. All laptops look the same. It’s boring as hell.
  • Laptops must be as thin and flimsy as possible. Bonus points if you can’t even fit an ethernet port.
  • I’m so sick of rounded corners everywhere… 😭
  • borokov@lemmy.world
    2·
    9 minutes ago

    Prompting.

    Remember the day where you have to type commands on a terminal to do anything and some guy came up with “button” and “windows” and suddenly you could print yo document with a single click ?

    Oh, cool, let’s bring back the trend of speaking to your computer through a text area !

    Fuck LLM.

  • black0ut@pawb.social
    2·
    16 minutes ago

    • Rounded corners. Everywhere. They lose so much space, especially on small screens, and everything feels crammed.

    • No personalization anywhere. You used to be able to completely customize social media profiles, to the point of editing your page’s CSS directly.

    • Modern OSes (except linux or BSD based ones which are not android) also have no color or personalization. You usually have the slabs of white on light mode, or the slabs of blak on dark mode, with only one color you can choose for some details.

    • JavaScript animations on every. Single. Website. I have an old phone (because I don’t like modern stuff), and it struggles with almost every modern, animated site. Is it really necessary to add all that js and animations?

    • No headphone jacks or expandable storage on modern phones. It probably costs cents to add those features. I know phones don’t usually have expandable storage because it makes you buy a new one once you fill all your storage, and I know they don’t have audio jacks because it makes you buy the company’s wireless headphones, but I need those features in my phone.

    • Why does everything have to be a web app now? Have people forgotten about actual softwate, that you own, that doesn’t need internet to work, that uses almost no resources and is faster and has more features than a web app? We got everything backward. Sites that should be webs like reddit will ask you to download their apps, while microsoft will try to code Word in javascript and sell it to you as an “upgrade”.

    • I hate subscriptions with passion, especially for software.

  • console.log(bathing_in_bismuth)@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    5 hours ago

    The advantage of an app is that they can use more permissions etc to spy on you even more compared to your browser.

    And don’t forget the biggest plus; they can also sell your data! Isn’t that wonderful?

  • Cherry@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    5 hours ago

    Smart everything. I’m buying second hand TVs simply so they are not marketing to me as soon as I turn it on.

    Terms of design I feel like since postmodern we have had a bastardisation of flat design which was really mostly suited to information design but it got shoved on everything hence the monochrome blandness. On the other side we got a bastardisation of arts and crafts maybe where people tried to digitally replicate traditional methods, we got hand lettering stamping etc. then they swished them together and true design got shoved out the window in favour of , how can we grab the users attention, to
    how can we hold the viewer captive, to
    How can we force the viewer to absorb, to The how can we annoy the viewer so much they will pay to just read/view in peace.

    I am not sure what this design movement will be called

  • SaneMartigan@aussie.zone
    1·
    5 hours ago

    Interrupted garden paths. Like stepping stones in lawn. Just put a continual path. Stepping stones are terrible for access and maintenance. Just grass or just paving would be preferable.

  • FairycorePhoebe@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    141·
    9 hours ago

    I loath the modern obsession with minimalist, utilitarian design. Everything is just a white, black, or grey slab with no artistic thought put into its form. Buildings, homes, cars, clothes, electronic devices. It’s almost like a capitalist version of brutalism. Even the design of user interfaces is usually a pile of flat, washed out rectangles now. It’s like the soul has been sucked out of everything we make, reduced to it’s most basic form. It can feel anti-human at times. Like the world has collectively decided that beauty is a waste of time.

  • CloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    8·
    9 hours ago

    PC towers that light up like a warehouse rave. I don’t need to signal to Rohan that my house calls for aid. It’s why I’ve stuck with a Fractal Design for the past 7 years.

    The fancy light bullshit should be add-ons for people who want it, not baked in for everyone who don’t. And you just know they’re slapping a 200% premium on those shitty lights into the cost of the tower.

    • phantomwise@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      4·
      6 hours ago

      I was looking at pc parts recently and not only was there RGB towers… but also RGB CPU. And RGB GPU. And RGB RAM. And RGB fan. RGB pretty much everything… I guess now your computer can double as disco ball should the need arise

  • keepcarrot [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2·
    8 hours ago
    • lights on everything
    • diagonal house, what are you even doing?
    • Increased phone power matched by increased surveillance and advertising
    • hats not having an extra space to remove sweat and warm sticky air. Bring back lifted asian conical hats!
    • App and website having different functionality, and you have to use the app
  • kersploosh@sh.itjust.works
    39·
    16 hours ago

    The trend toward subdued color palettes. Every new home is decorated in “millennial gray.” Most cars are black, white, gray, or silver. You have to go out of your way to find bright, colorful clothing or furniture. It’s incredibly boring and I can’t wait for the pendulum to swing back the other way.

    • Kühlschrank@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 hours ago

      I really thought we’d have a vibrant post pandemic ‘roaring 2020’s’. Seems like it wasn’t handled right and so we’re sort of still stuck in the same doldrums.

    • stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca
      3·
      8 hours ago

      Most cars are black, white, gray, or silver.

      I fucking hate these new vehicles with the paint that has no sparkle to it, especially the horrible grey one. So called Putty ass-whips

    • Paradachshund@lemmy.today
      21·
      16 hours ago

      Don’t worry, it will. I’m a designer and the one thing you can count is all of us designers get bored every few years and flip things around. That’s how buttons keep shifting from rounded corners to square corners every few years.

    • jimmux@programming.dev
      10·
      15 hours ago

      It’s the shape of things, too. They have no character.

      I was shopping for door knobs recently, because all the knobs in this house are spherical and smooth. They’re impossible to grip. We have a disabled person in the house who struggles to turn them. Gloves slip right off.

      At the hardware store is an entire aisle full of doorknobs, but nearly all of them are the exact same smooth spherical shape. The rest were ugly rectangular lever styles that work but look very industrial in a home that’s mostly natural textures.

      Somehow all these brands, finishes, locking features, price ranges, dozens of product variations, and literally only two doorknob shapes. Both so minimalist as to be almost impractical.

      I had to settle for the lever style for one door, and just put grip tape on the others.

      • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        9 hours ago

        Everything being extruded, quickest to make crap is getting ridiculous. Even the expensive stuff looks like IKEA.

        I miss craftsmanship and artistry.

      • stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca
        3·
        9 hours ago

        In many places doorknobs are being phased out of codes precisely because they aren’t accessible like a lever style is.

    • tomkatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      15 hours ago

      I hate that. I had my home built to spec a few years ago. The exterior siding is cedar shake stained a chocolatey brown with forest green trim, and the interior is white walls but with natural wood trim, pale golden laminate wood flooring, and two tone hickory wood cabinets, and the interior doors are all just natural wood unpainted.

      I’ve leaned into the wood aesthetic with my DIY standing desk and custom pine desktop stained a dark red oak color, among various other earth tone color hints, and splashes of brighter decoration here and there.

      Was going for “cozy cabin/cottage” and I think we nailed it. It’s very rustic.

      I really hate the modern trends of white, black, steel, and glass.

  • Cricket [he/him]@lemmy.zipEnglish
    19·
    14 hours ago
    • Completely flat chiclet keyboards on laptops. It drives me absolutely insane because I can barely tell if my fingers are aligned with the keys. Thanks, Apple!
    • Hidden controls on desktop software or desktop websites (ex: hidden exit, forward, and back controls on picture galleries)
    • Hiding or collapsing scrollbars on desktop software

    In general, it seems like there’s a major trend in design of form beating the heck out of function. It looks pretty! Who cares if you can actually use it or not?

  • otp@sh.itjust.works
    34·
    16 hours ago

    Webpages bouncing stuff around as various elements load in.

    Back in the day, the space would be reserved, so if something hadn’t loaded yet, that space would be blank.

    Nowadays, you’ll be reading something (or worse – trying to click on something), and it’ll get bounced around because some other element of the webpage got loaded in.

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
      7·
      12 hours ago

      This trend is, incidentally, solely because we a higher percentage of programmers knew what they were doing.

      It’s easier to build a webpage, but more people can make them worse quality, now.