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.
  • magic_lobster_party@fedia.io
    108·
    24 days ago

    Showing ”2 weeks ago” or ”1 month ago” instead of the actual date. ”1 month ago” can be anything between 30 days and 60 days ago.

    • Camelbeard@lemmy.world
      181·
      23 days ago

      We use gitlab and I knew my coworker commited something yesterday, I deployed a new version yesterday but I wasn’t sure if I deployed before or after his commit. Why do they just show yester instead of a normal timestamp. Do these developers think we can’t read?

      • aesthelete@lemmy.world
        51·
        22 days ago

        I honestly think a lot of it is that they have to keep twiddling with shit to have something to do.

        These pieces of garbage have come across my desk as “requirements” too because they get copied and pasted from other “best of breed” apps from the web.

        Most of the designers I’ve encountered in my day to day work love nothing better than to copy from other apps rather than actually think for fifteen seconds about how to design something.

    • qevlarr@lemmy.world
      10·
      23 days ago

      Even worse: “last week/month/year” lumps everything together when you start the next week/month/year

      • magic_lobster_party@fedia.io
        12·
        23 days ago

        It’s annoying when going through a list of multiple ”1 month ago” entries. Maybe I’m looking for an entry at a certain date. Aim with mouse, wait one second, repeat.

        What I could easily visually identify in less than 1 second can take more than 10 seconds to find.

        It also greatly increases the cognitive load of using the program. If there are many entries to look for, then it’s going to be difficult to keep all actual dates in memory.

        ”Where was the 14 April entry? I need to check again. Ah there it is! Now I need to compare it against the 30 April entry. Where was it again? It was just in front of me…”

        Then mouse hover doesn’t work on mobile.