I fucking hate the waste of space on websites. I also hate topbars that follow me as I scroll down.

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?

Material design. Everything must be so flat that you cannot see if it’s a button or just something highlighted.

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?"

I hate Google's material design with a passion. Everything looks exactly the same, and many buttons and other touch elements are indistinguishable from highlights and general design elements.

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.

Light themes as default. I don't want to be maced with photons. Dark themes always please.

The installed appification of everything riddled with trackers when a web browser + site will do. Dead simple minimalistic UI that a toddler can figure out how to use. Every product is designed to account for the lowest common denominators of human intelligence which encourages 'cant, wont, dont know how' brain rot instead of making the tech illiterate feel pressured to actually apply themselves to learn. Now we have entire generations of idiots who feel entitled to the pleasant convince of advanced technology but unwilling to understand whats actually going on under the hood or accept responsibility to learn how to use it properly/ethically.

A society built entirely on dead simple convinence and instant gratification is one that fosters the destruction of individual critical thinking skills and mental robustness to troubleshoot/adapt when encountering a problem.

So many people are proud of it, thats the worst part for me. Legitately bragging about making it through life with the bare minimum of braincell rubbing. As if just being an unthinking half-sentient ape with a learned helplessness complex is an ideal state of being worthy of pride.

1. No error messages, ever. Because apparently users hate information with all their heart and are at risk of burning down cities if they ever find out what the fuck went wrong with an application.
2. Disappearing scroll bars

Nothing is ever done, even when it evolves to a great functional state that everyone is familiar with, and it works perfectly well. No, we need to fiddle with it to "keep it fresh" which inevitably makes it worse in some way.

1. the lets put a lot of shit in the title bar of our app trend. Fuck off, I use that bar to pull the window around.
2. The idea that I should adapt to the technology, and not the other way around. Don't force changes on me, especially when they're only implemented to be able to slap a new version number on the box.

Why does every apartment I ever live in now never have laundry in unit, and requires you use a mobile app w/ an account to pay to do laundry. Why do I need to load a digital wallet that requires I pay a fee if I only want to add just the amount for one load? It's absurd. Let me put quarters in.

Removing or replacing decades old proven and studied ui elements because fuck you user.

Items are no longer made to last past their warranty.

They are made to last past the time you’re allowed to leave a review.

Touch controls everywhere, I've got an induction cook top which is all touch, (temperature is a bar you can drag) guess what happens when you've got some spillage while cooking. Yeah, if you are lucky nothing happens, but I had it several times shutting itself down, or adjusting the temperature, which is fucking stupid and dangerous. You want to get rid of the water with a towel? Something will trigger. Really great.

Letting the computer decide what is best for you. There was/is this feature?! in windows 10, or 11 where it sets the color of your font on the desktop based on your wallpaper, and I did not find a way to change it. So what happens when you've got a wallpaper that is bright on top and darker on the bottom, like maybe a landscape image? Guess you are just not reading any of the text on the top half...

Cameras and microphones in "smart" TVs. There's a reason why when the current TV I use as a monitor dies that I'd be more than willing to take it to a repair shop than replace it.

Also, on the subject of that TV, I'd be lucky to find a modern model that's even half of double the size of my current one. It feels impossible to find anything anywhere near 1080x1920 resolution. Maybe I'm bad at finding them, but you know, finding anything like that from known, reputable companies today. Hell, I even looked at a few Japanese brands from their Japanese websites and all the models were looking like American super sized models.

When someone puts a house up for sale and all the photos of the house are photoshopped in some way, with fake added furnishings in every room. I'd so much rather see an empty room than that fake shit. Or hell, even if it's not empty, show me the current owner's shit, I don't care.

Putting a bunch of unskippable bullshit in front of a game I'm doing to play.

I don't need to know how much you all jerk yourself off to your own studio's logo.. I just wanna play. Can you get that shit out of my face please or let me courtesy-skip it after 1 second?

Apartment complex websites that photoshop (outright lie) about what the apartment is like and you're not allowed to see the actual place before renting (current tenant is still there, or the manager/owner just doesn't want you to see even if it's empty). And - there's so much competition for apartments in the area you either sign the lease sight-unseen or you live in your car.

I've done OK in some of these. None were what the website pics and descriptions offered, but they were still OK. Some others, though, turned out to be absolute broken down dumps. And every single one of these places have great online reviews. Imagine that.

Dark pattern design obviously

Every new building looks the same. Fast food restaurants are indistinguishable except for the sign out front. All apartment buildings are identical. Office buildings are built to house cubicle farms. Nothing new is interesting or unique, because it’s not profitable to stand out; it’s all optimized for speed and cost. Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V everywhere.

I bought a dryer and it has "AI Dry." Which I'm fairly sure is not. It's just the "sensor dry" feature that dryers have had for decades. Except I can't control the amount of heat (no "low heat" option) so it ends up being fairly useless. This is also the default option whenever the dryer turns on, so yay.

"Have you tried our new layout?"
"Did you know you now can...?"
"We've hidden this from you, but don't worry! Click here to see them"
"News: We're launching a new product!"
"Looking for X? It is now here!"
"We upgraded you to the new view. Revert to the old view?"
"Enable integration with (our other product) for an enhanced experience"
"You may not have permission to view what used to be on this page"
"Take a tour"
"How are you liking the new settings screen?"
"You will be automatically moved to the new X, no need to do anything"

Sticky headers. Unbearably distracting.

Also, wasted space and a lack of information density.

Endless scrolling over pagination

I'm currently sitting in a modern car dealership and ever single chair SUCKS. Modern chairs are hard, low backed, have funky angles, and if they are high backed, it's to give this half assed sense of privacy that just isn't there.

Man old chairs are so much better. You just sunk and could almost take a nap.

Farmhouse modern

UI components that do things when you click on them but don't appear until you hover the mouse over them. I'm mostly talking about stuff like little edit buttons with pencil icons or close/cancel buttons with little X's. I want to select an item from a list or change tabs in my browser, but when I click, I find I am actually now editing the name of the thing or closing/muting a tab because a button that wasn't there before has suddenly appeared beneath my click action. But it also applies to vanishing scrollbars others have complained about.

On that point, I want bigger scrollbars, not smaller ones. Browsers especially could benefit from the kind of minimap I get in a code editor.

1.) Everything is a "smart" device. Household appliances, as a general rule, should not be connectable to the internet or require an app.

Cheaper components, poor build quality, and lack of user serviceable parts are the primary reasons your washer and dryer last 10 years compared to your parents Maytag set that was still ticking away after 30. Cheap, unnecessary electronics, which don't have as long a lifespan as mechanical timers and switches, only exacerbate this problem.

2.) Cordless tools as a means of vendor locking customers.

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.

Millennial gray interior design. Gray "wood pattern" laminate floor, white cabinets, black appliances. Just no color. It's so depressing. For only $1600/no you can live in a 3rd story gray pod that's still 45 minutes from where you work.

I hate single page apps that force you to click on a post to see comments, and don't let you open them in a new tab.

I have been a software tester for a long time and I really fuckin hate these JS frameworks that try to reinvent the wheel but worse.

Like why is a fucking table now a bunch of divs? Why is a drop down (select) list a bunch of divs? With disappearing html blocks when you close the list?

HTML worked fine, why are we reinventing basic HTML but worse?

touch screens aren't a design trend. they're a way to save cost.

LED indicator lights on things that have nothing to indicate. Does an electric fan need an indicator? Will you be confused about whether it's operating or not if it doesn't have one? Oh, it's in swivel mode! Good thing it told me that, or I might have thought it was swiveling for other reasons.

Sort of meta, but: Alienation.

Buildings plopped down in a rectangle with a standard layout—boxy building with door facing parking lot—with no ornamentation, no contextual clues about what's inside, and worst, no consideration or design dialogue whatsoever with the surroundings. It's like a city as Lego set, each building on its own bar plate, and they can be shuffled around in any order. Designers talk about design language, and this style says, "fuck you."

Food that just shows up at your door after ordering from an app, made by a "ghost kitchen." Possibly located in one of those boxes-with-a-parking-lot. No connection to other humans. (Or is that a tire distributor's headquarters? No way to tell.)

Company web sites with no information about who runs the company, or where it is, or much about its connection to the community. The product is probably made on spec by an anonymous Chinese factory, so even if you can talk to somebody, they're either in a contract call center serving hundreds of companies, or somebody not paid enough to care.

Speaking of low-paid lackeys, the fast food-ification of the landscape. They're getting rid of dining rooms, so your only human interaction is briefly through a window. If you're lucky. They're working on getting rid of that, too. Then, you're sealed behind a windshield, in cars that get more fortress-like every year, never seeing another human face.

A lot of people say that they're introverts and hate people and like it this way, but we also have a pandemic of loneliness and poor mental health , so...

• When interface shifts around due to information update (e.g new bluetooth devices found).
• When primary content in a website is hidden behind hover effects.
• Expensive animations, blur and gradients with no functionality.
• When an app treats me like a baby and asks me 20 questions one at a time instead of giving me a menu of options.
• Excesive round corners
• Excesive padding on apps.

I just really hate when webpages take 10 seconds to load a cluttered mess of an interface with no sense of direction

If I ever meet the asshole that invented the mouse-off function for webpages so that when you go to close a tab, a pop-up jumps up so that the website owner can scream, "wait, no, please subscribe, give us your email, send us money, something holy fucking shit, dear god ah!" at you I swear I will break their fucking fingers and punch them in the dick.

Give me back my God damn full keyboard and headphone jack. (Phones)

lack of user control in devices and software generally

I wish I could tell my dishwasher what sequence and length of rinse, wash, and dry cycles to do and how long to do each but instead i gotta pick between "heavy, regular, light, eco" and just fucking guess which is best for my needs. if I'm lucky the manual will have sequence descriptions