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… 😭
  • Rom [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 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.

    • biocoder.ronin@lemmy.ml
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      20 hours ago

      What management seems as innovation should result in lost heads. Their lost heads. Fire those people.

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      1 day ago

      But if you don’t, how will they charge you a subscription for continued usage of your fridge?