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.
  • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
    241·
    10 days ago

    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.

    • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      8·
      10 days ago

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

    • megane-kun@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      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.

        • megane-kun@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          8 days ago

          Also why would the “Scan in store” thing pop up when I’m in my bedroom?

          When I try using geolocation for my desktop or my phone connected to my home wifi, it is as if I were in the same building as my ISPs offices (or maybe servers?) I suppose it’s the same over there. Maybe there’s a CVS near (same building?) your ISPs offices.