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

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This button “style.” WTF even is this? It’s objectively and functionally terrible.

Also McDonald’s brutalism. But then, I’m happy not to eat there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Worse than the squircle button design?

the height of the "Home" button isn't even the same as the rest of the other buttons
no spacing between the buttons
the element surrounding those buttons don't even contain buttons properly
lack of proper spacing between the buttons and the containing element

I am not wanting vast swathes of white space between elements, but if you're giving them background colors so that you indicate where the user can click (and thus interact with the button) at least have some decency to give them some breathing room. Sure, when hovering you can add an effect such that it either changes color, brightness, or gains a glowy border or what have you, but most of the time none of those elements are hovered! You'd be seeing them all crammed together like sardines in a tube!!

Oh, and I got so riled up that I didn't even address that out of place "ExtraCare scan in store" element. Why is it even covering the "Discover" text? Was the foreground some interactive element that just popped up?

Sorry. The more I try to make sense of the UI, the more I think rounded/squircle buttons are the least of the problems there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

Your point are all 100% spot on. Also why would the “Scan in store” thing pop up when I’m in my bedroom?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Someone on the design team heard that squircles are the latest shit and put zero thought into implementing them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

How was this person hired onto a design team?! You can’t even read the full button text because it’s cut off for no reason!!