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.
  • 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.