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.
  • Xaphanos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    2 days ago

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

    • brap@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 days ago

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

    • bizarroland@lemmy.world
      61·
      2 days 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.

    • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • bluGill@fedia.io
        41·
        2 days ago

        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.