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.
  • gabelstapler@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    The “toggle switch”. In the past we had these checkboxes. A black square. If it had a x or check mark in it, it meant this option was active, otherwise not.

    Now we have these fancy toggle switches. If it’s on the left side, is it on or off? What if it’s blue, or grey?

  • yesman@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Every appliance, monitor, speaker, clock, really anything that plugs in has to have a blue LED.

    Got a modem from the cable company installed in my bedroom, the indicator lights were bright enough to read by.