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… 😭
  • reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml
    1·
    5 days ago

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

  • pyre@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 days ago

    you’re not complaining about “design trends”, you’re complaining about capitalism.

    everything is touchscreen because it’s cheaper than mechanical buttons.

    all products looks the same because 1. it’s cheaper 2. mass appeal is more profitable than niche, and 3. it’s risk free

    everything’s an app because they can collect data, push notifications, and force you into closed ecosystems.

    laptops are thin because they probably sell more as a lot of people prioritize lightweight and less bulky laptops to carry them around easier. phones are going the other way but when you’re talking laptops it’s kilograms rather than grams so the difference is more important.

    finally rounded corners are probably a design trend, although i am generally in favor of them.

  • monovergent 🛠️@lemmy.ml
    1·
    7 days ago
    • Light and dark modes with nothing in between. Platinum from MacOS and the default look from Windows 95 were crisp and bright without burning out your eyeballs.
    • Wasted screen space. People laugh at Japanese websites for looking too busy, but I’d much rather deal with that than scroll for ages or look for links buried 3 levels deep in a hamburger menu.
    • The idea that everything needs a backlit color LCD screen.
    • Modern standby on laptops. Sure I could just hibernate it, but that’s very inelegant when S3 sleep was perfectly fine before.
    • Glued-together electronics.
    • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      The ultra-dark dark modes really bug me, black with various shades of black or dark colors is almost impossible to see UI elements on easily.

      Dark modes should be like in the 50% gray area, where it’s dim but things can still have good contrast.

      • monovergent 🛠️@lemmy.ml
        1·
        5 days ago

        S3 sleep powers down all major components except for RAM. Modern sleep also keeps the CPU and network up, albeit in a low power state. It’s not always executed well, hence the reports of laptops cooking themselves in a bag or draining overnight despite being “in sleep mode”.

        • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Also doesn’t hibernate write your RAM contents to your disk? That sounds like a great way to leak your passwords and encryption keys in plaintext. Also you need to always reserve the same amount of space on disk as your RAM and can’t use that space for anything else on the off chance you might want to hibernate.

          • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            At least for windows the hibernation file is stored as a file on the C: drive, so will be encrypted by bitlocker along with your other data.

            • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              2 days ago

              Wouldn’t that also mean that when the file gets overwritten, i.e the next time the system hibernates, you can potentially run a data recovery program on the C filesystem to leak its previous contents since modern filesystems don’t necessarily immediately overwrite the underlying data anymore, but usually just change the regions on the drive the file points to? So you could have ghost memory dumps hiding out in your free space just waiting for malware to access. You can definitely recover data from the free space of a Bitlocker volume because the encryption is transparent to the filesystem.

              This is also why I don’t like swap files and always disable them (or use an OS like Fedora that doesn’t have them by default), because it kind of defeats the point of only storing some data in RAM for security.

              I could just be ignorant of how memory files in storage are managed though.

  • Rom [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    1·
    8 days ago

    Why does everything need to be an app by the way?

    So they can track you and collect your data.

    On that same note, every appliance being designed with internet connectivity when there’s no conceivable reason for it to be there. No, I don’t want my fridge or my thermostat or my coffee maker to connect to the internet. And I am never going to put one of those surveillance devices smart speakers in my home, ever.

  • black0ut@pawb.social
    1·
    7 days 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.