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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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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] 84 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

            
              No error messages, ever. Because apparently users hate information with all their heart and are at risk of burning down cities if they ever find out what the fuck went wrong with an application.
Disappearing scroll bars

[–] shutz 22 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Users have somehow been trained to ignore and dismiss error messages. Probably from getting too many ad pop-ups.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Users are lazy AF and hate to read. No matter how instructive the error message, some people would rather open a helpdesk ticket because "the computer isn't working again".

It says right there your USB drive is full and suggests deleting some files to free up space, Karen! 🤨

[–] [email protected] 13 points 15 hours ago

Users have always hated computers but they now must use them and treat them as appliances.

When my parents needed a new computer, I told them "no hp ever, and don't buy an anti-virus, it's built-in now." They obviously knew better than me and asked the salesman instead. They bought a hp computer with a McAffee subscription...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Worse than useless error messages are useless error messages that try to be cute/funny.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 19 hours ago

Uh oh! We made an oopsie 👉👈 sowwy we wost your data

Two buttons on the bottom of the window:

"It's okay fam!"

and

"I'm a grumpy meanie who doesnt understand things happen!"