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.
  • @HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world
    19•7 days ago

    The removal of bezels on phones, the camera cutouts sometimes have issues and its all together worse, just for a technically larger screen, and Apps, so many apps are just packaged web browsers, but with more access to private information and such.

    • Boomer Humor DoomergodEnglish
      20•7 days ago

      I don’t understand why they need the have the lenses in a bump. Just make the phone a bit thicker with a bigger battery

      • moonlight
        6•6 days ago

        Yes this is so dumb. Razor thin phone with massive camera bumps. Who is asking for this?

        • Boomer Humor DoomergodEnglish
          13•6 days ago

          Especially when the first thing you do is get a case to protect the cameras and make the phone sit level on a table

          • @ch00f@lemmy.world
            4•6 days ago

            I think that’s kind of the thing. They can’t physically make the camera any smaller, but they assume you’re going to make the phone thicker with a case. So it’s a compromise based on customer preference.

            • moonlight
              6•6 days ago

              Well ideally they would just make the phone more durable without a case, and the full thickness of the camera filled with battery, headphone jack, etc.

              Seriously so much smartphone design is based on initial appeal, not actual usability.

              • @grue@lemmy.world
                2•6 days ago

                For me, the issue isn’t just about durability, it’s also about how a cheap clear TPU case is way grippier than the metal or glass of the phone itself.