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. And then having the nerve to tell you to download the mobile app 😑
  • Why does everything need to be an app by the way? Especially when the only advantage the app gives you over the website is that you’re not constantly spammed with messages telling you to use the app… Are you making your website shittier on purpose so I feel like I have to use the app?.. I don’t WANT your app, you can shove it where the sun doesn’t shine.
  • Actually EVERYTHING looks like it’s made for a phone… Like what’s the deal with all those hamburger menus on DESKTOP software? 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. You know, “keyboards”? Those things that people on DESKTOPS use?
  • All phones look the same. All laptops look the same. It’s boring as hell.
  • Laptops must be as thin and flimsy as possible. Bonus points if you can’t even fit an ethernet port.
  • I’m so sick of rounded corners everywhere… 😭
  • thesohoriots@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    24 hours ago

    Corporate Memphis, and I’ll get ahead of the curve, whatever its successor is. Probably some kind of AI-chic.

    • Cherry@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      Milano mepphis was one of the last hurrah of post modern. A decent trend at least. Corporate Memphis is an abomination. It’s like meeting Clint Eastwoods great grandchild who has a mullet, has no option on anything, and works as a real estate agent. It’s not wrong but lack of character and conviction is such a bore.

    • jimmux@programming.dev
      4·
      23 hours ago

      I suspect Corporate Memphis is partly successful because it works with ambiguous skin colours, so it automatically ticks diversity boxes without the artist having to think too hard about representation.

      My prediction is that the successor will double down on that. I hope it’s cartoony style anthropomorphic animals.