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.
Camera bumps on phones
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.
Putting a bunch of unskippable bullshit in front of a game I’m doing to play.
I don’t need to know how much you all jerk yourself off to your own studio’s logo… I just wanna play. Can you get that shit out of my face please or let me courtesy-skip it after 1 second?
Dark pattern design obviously
When someone puts a house up for sale and all the photos of the house are photoshopped in some way, with fake added furnishings in every room. I’d so much rather see an empty room than that fake shit. Or hell, even if it’s not empty, show me the current owner’s shit, I don’t care.
The installed appification of everything riddled with trackers when a web browser + site will do. Dead simple minimalistic UI that a toddler can figure out how to use. Every product is designed to account for the lowest common denominators of human intelligence which encourages ‘cant, wont, dont know how’ brain rot instead of making the tech illiterate feel pressured to actually apply themselves to learn. Now we have entire generations of idiots who feel entitled to the pleasant convince of advanced technology but unwilling to understand whats actually going on under the hood or accept responsibility to learn how to use it properly/ethically.
A society built entirely on dead simple convinence and instant gratification is one that fosters the destruction of individual critical thinking skills and mental robustness to troubleshoot/adapt when encountering a problem.
So many people are proud of it, thats the worst part for me. Legitately bragging about making it through life with the bare minimum of braincell rubbing. As if just being an unthinking half-sentient ape with a learned helplessness complex is an ideal state of being worthy of pride.
You hit it spot on. That lazy attitude pisses me off so much I will hardly help people with tech anymore. I know like maybe 1 person who actually has the want to learn, the rest are so lazy they wont even get off the couch to watch a DVD they already own so they stream it with ads instead. Infuriating. And the people using gibbity are 10000 times worse. Idiots. I think those of us who want to learn and enjoy it are going to be gone in 10 years. Replaced by total corpo idiocy.
I bought a dryer and it has “AI Dry.” Which I’m fairly sure is not. It’s just the “sensor dry” feature that dryers have had for decades. Except I can’t control the amount of heat (no “low heat” option) so it ends up being fairly useless. This is also the default option whenever the dryer turns on, so yay.
We recently bought a dryer and it’s “eco mode” means we gotta run it two or three times before things are dry. How the eff is that eco at all???
Don’t get me started on eco on the washer. Too late, it means there won’t be enough water to COVER ALL THE CLOTHES.
Well that’s just silly
AI dry. fuck off haha
Sticky headers. Unbearably distracting.
Also, wasted space and a lack of information density.
Some take up 30% of the page… In plain 2025! Disgusting.
I’ve seen even worse! Sticky headers with sticky sidebars on both sides. Only about 10-15% of the viewport was left for content. And this is for documentation, so you can only read about 100-200 words at once.
Why even bother having a webpage at that point. Just make the whole thing a non-interactive .png file.
Big garages on the front of houses, with front door hidden. Hate Hate Hate the garage houses with my whole soul.
are the garages at least used for hobbies?
Dunno. Maybe, because sometimes I see the cars are parked outside, but often people just drive into the garage and close it, enter through some door inside it.
I really can’t overstate my disdain for this design.
must look ultra sexy for car brained people
I’m currently sitting in a modern car dealership and ever single chair SUCKS. Modern chairs are hard, low backed, have funky angles, and if they are high backed, it’s to give this half assed sense of privacy that just isn’t there.
Man old chairs are so much better. You just sunk and could almost take a nap.
Maybe that’s intentional to keep you from wanting to stay there a long time and negotiate.
A pair of buttons forcing you to choose Yes or Maybe later. The word is NO, assholes!
I want to find the marketing genius who started that shit and ask them, “do you want me to whomp you over the head with a rusty manure shovel? Yes or Maybe later?”
it’s pushed by CEO that don’t see a no as a no. Be it with customers or with people at the bar
I need to add another one. All modern anime, to me, seems look the same. Like a lot the same. Homogenous. And unfortunately just not at all visually interesting. It’s preventing me from even attempting to get into anything new, because I honestly can’t visually tell the differences anymore. What happened to the artistry? For instance:
Every new building looks the same. Fast food restaurants are indistinguishable except for the sign out front. All apartment buildings are identical. Office buildings are built to house cubicle farms. Nothing new is interesting or unique, because it’s not profitable to stand out; it’s all optimized for speed and cost. Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V everywhere.
This response reminds me of this article (which I found absolutely hilarious on first read): https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/the-intellectual-situation/why-is-everything-so-ugly/
Yes! And from the perspective of somebody who managed buildings: Any residential structure built in the last 10 years is subject to horrendous levels of breakdown and failure, due entirely to substandard materials and overall build quality.
Building sprinkler systems springing leaks behind major walled areas. AC systems failing to the point of needing seals and recharge in 3 years. Alarm systems in perpetual state of ground-fault due to improperly installed wiring or water leaking where it shouldn’t be. Water-hammer effect everywhere. Plumbing joints springing leaks left, right and center as a result. Doors falling off, every single knob in a 120-suite structure needing replacement after 3 years.
Its utterly disgraceful.
Water-hammer effect everywhere.
Those front loading washers everyone seems to adore almost universally require the installation of water hammer arrestors or it’s bye bye pipes.
Same with cars. They’re all the same ugly-ass hideous blobs that hardly resemble cars anymore, and all of them are the same tiny grays, whites, blacks, and maybe red if you’re lucky. Gone are the days of colourful cars that actually had style.
I miss brightly coloured cars. A friend has an old, bright yellow car that probably won’t last for much longer, and they are sad that newer cars are much duller.
Convergent evolution through CAFE laws and UAW protectionist lobbying.
Everything is a fucking service! NO, I don’t want to spend 2.99 every month on a app that reminds me to take a pill.
Even hardware products that basically are scrap metal if you don’t pay a monthly fee.
on the hardware products, I enjoy finding the early examples of them (where the manufacture stopped supporting) as project boxes.
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