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.
  • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    A pair of buttons forcing you to choose Yes or Maybe later. The word is NO, assholes!

    I want to find the marketing genius who started that shit and ask them, “do you want me to whomp you over the head with a rusty manure shovel? Yes or Maybe later?”

    • EighteenthNerd@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      It only accomplishes making me feel better, but it’s a side benefit I get from using the uBlock Origin extension’s “zapper mode” function: getting to one-click nuke these things and move on with my life like a normal person.

    • cabillaud@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      Even yes or no infuriated me to start with… The words I would choose are “never ever”