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.
  • gabelstapler@feddit.org
    17·
    7 days ago

    The “toggle switch”. In the past we had these checkboxes. A black square. If it had a x or check mark in it, it meant this option was active, otherwise not.

    Now we have these fancy toggle switches. If it’s on the left side, is it on or off? What if it’s blue, or grey?

      • loiakdsf@discuss.tchncs.de
        4·
        6 days ago

        left is definetly not always off. i am curious what you mean by delayed effect that cannot also affect a checkbox. especially if some cookie settings now havetoggles with three options, each one in a different color, some just slide between the rightmosg and middle option etc.

        no matter what you say, this is not intuitive, a checkbox is! if there are more than two options, choose another ui element. foem over function is way too common for (at least my) comfort nowadays

        • 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠@programming.dev
          1·
          6 days ago

          Left is always supposed to be off. If not, the UI/UZ designer who made the page messed up.

          What I mean by immediate effect is that a switch is supposed to toggle something instantly. Checkboxes are more common in forms, where you expect to submit your choices later.

          Switches with more than one option are generally bad, agreed with you there.

  • viking@infosec.pub
    19·
    7 days ago

    I hate Google’s material design with a passion. Everything looks exactly the same, and many buttons and other touch elements are indistinguishable from highlights and general design elements.

  • acchariya@lemmy.world
    15·
    7 days ago

    Nothing is ever done, even when it evolves to a great functional state that everyone is familiar with, and it works perfectly well. No, we need to fiddle with it to “keep it fresh” which inevitably makes it worse in some way.

    • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      6 days ago

      Counter offer: dark themes as default for professional software.

      I don’t write software in a dimly light geek cave, I do it in a well lit office. And I can’t tell that dark red string from the background.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    14·
    7 days ago

    Cameras and microphones in “smart” TVs. There’s a reason why when the current TV I use as a monitor dies that I’d be more than willing to take it to a repair shop than replace it.

    Also, on the subject of that TV, I’d be lucky to find a modern model that’s even half of double the size of my current one. It feels impossible to find anything anywhere near 1080x1920 resolution. Maybe I’m bad at finding them, but you know, finding anything like that from known, reputable companies today. Hell, I even looked at a few Japanese brands from their Japanese websites and all the models were looking like American super sized models.

  • Widdershins@lemmy.world
    12·
    7 days ago

    I would like to change the radio station in a school zone and not run over a bunch of kids because I had to take my eyes off the road. Touchscreens are more distracting to use than my phone, which I don’t like to use while driving because it is distracting enough.

    Touchscreens absolutely do not belong in cars and I hope my car with buttons doesn’t fucking die before the trend dies.

    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      6 days ago

      I agree. My car a Mercedes A200d from 2020 is a bit of a hybrid, it has a touch screen but also button controls to change things, but even those are a bit fiddly.

      I love that it had a voice control feature that actually works so no I just press a button on the steering wheel and say “play classic fm” and it changes. Good for using navigation too as the less time you are using the screen the better.

  • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    6 days ago
    1. the lets put a lot of shit in the title bar of our app trend. Fuck off, I use that bar to pull the window around.
    2. The idea that I should adapt to the technology, and not the other way around. Don’t force changes on me, especially when they’re only implemented to be able to slap a new version number on the box.
  • EighteenthNerd@lemmy.world
    6·
    6 days ago

    Apartment complex websites that photoshop (outright lie) about what the apartment is like and you’re not allowed to see the actual place before renting (current tenant is still there, or the manager/owner just doesn’t want you to see even if it’s empty). And - there’s so much competition for apartments in the area you either sign the lease sight-unseen or you live in your car.

    I’ve done OK in some of these. None were what the website pics and descriptions offered, but they were still OK. Some others, though, turned out to be absolute broken down dumps. And every single one of these places have great online reviews. Imagine that.