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Original question text by @[email protected]

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] 30 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Colors. Society has been getting more monochrome for years. And now black and white houses are all over.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Houses are usually white to reflect heat and because white doesn't burn out.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Oh man yeah, everything’s monochrome. Grey houses, grey fences, white cars, grey window frames, grey kitchens. Everything is so dull.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

My house is a reddish brown with a green metal roof. My cars are black, red, and yellow, and I do everything I can to make sure that I am surrounded by at least some kind of light and color at all times.

If I was dating a girl and I found out that she was a sad beige mom, that would be the end of the relationship.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I am about to close on my first house and it has white aluminum siding. I want to replace the siding, but what color do I choose? Also the roof is red metal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

any color you want. Your local paint store can can mix any of tens of thousand different colors while you wait. Paint is cheap - spend the extra cost for their best paint and it is still cheap.

make sure you don't move where a hoa puts limits on you - and tell your realtor not to waste your time on those places.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Paint is cheap

I mean, compared to gold bars I guess. (Guess who's painting their house)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 34 minutes ago

Yeah, paint is pretty damn expensive. Especially outdoor house paint that is neither a pain in the ass to apply nor will flake off in 3 years

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

Red and green go well together. Perhaps a natural foresty color.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, like a Christmas house. Sounds very tasteful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Red and green house with golden roof. So artsy and kitsch <3