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

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by phantomwise@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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... 😭

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[–] BlindFrog@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I used to be able to point to ling's cars as a holdout of fun web page design, but they've changed v.v

https://web.archive.org/web/20110108151026/https://www.lingscars.com/

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

Flat pack furniture. Everything being reduced to the cheapest to make and cheapest to ship.

[–] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Corporate whimsy. I forget what the name coined for it was. It has bubbly oddly proportioned people and pastel colors. As an example.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago

Modern construction on a budget. It uses little more than reinforced cardboard and a moisture barrier. Sometimes the cardboard isn't even glued or nailed in. So it can literally get unfolded by the wind, and suddenly the only thing preventing your house from getting water damage is a .3mm piece of plastic wrap that you HOPE the contractors didn't damage or install improperly.

Here's one such house. I don't know if it would even last a decade without significant repairs. They voided the warranty on the roof already too, so you could be out tens of thousands of dollars before you even move in.

https://youtu.be/mRuO62aNBEE

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