Material design. Everything must be so flat that you cannot see if it’s a button or just something highlighted.
Exactly, I can't believe we are still in this since years, can't wait for the next trend hoping it won't get worse..
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?
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.
You hit it spot on. That lazy attitude pisses me off so much I will hardly help people with tech anymore. I know like maybe 1 person who actually has the want to learn, the rest are so lazy they wont even get off the couch to watch a DVD they already own so they stream it with ads instead. Infuriating. And the people using gibbity are 10000 times worse. Idiots. I think those of us who want to learn and enjoy it are going to be gone in 10 years. Replaced by total corpo idiocy.
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.
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.
starting to run into this in some hotels too. fucking stupid.
Sounds like an easier job for the landlord/owner, not having to manage coins and exchange.
Sure, but it makes it impossible for anyone that doesn't have a smartphone with Bluetooth to use them, and makes me have another account I don't want, among other issues. If the apartment's WiFi has issues, the machines lose connection and you can't use them, It's a vastly worse experience then using quarters or even just a card reader.
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.
iOS Photos app is a textbook example of this
Light themes as default. I don't want to be maced with photons. Dark themes always please.
Counter offer: dark themes as default for professional software.
I don't write software in a dimly light geek cave, I do it in a well lit office. And I can't tell that dark red string from the background.
Removing or replacing decades old proven and studied ui elements because fuck you user.
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.
Dark pattern design obviously
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?
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.
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.
We recently bought a dryer and it's "eco mode" means we gotta run it two or three times before things are dry. How the eff is that eco at all???
Don't get me started on eco on the washer. Too late, it means there won't be enough water to COVER ALL THE CLOTHES.
AI dry. fuck off haha
Sticky headers. Unbearably distracting.
Also, wasted space and a lack of information density.
Some take up 30% of the page... In plain 2025! Disgusting.
I've seen even worse! Sticky headers with sticky sidebars on both sides. Only about 10-15% of the viewport was left for content. And this is for documentation, so you can only read about 100-200 words at once.
Why even bother having a webpage at that point. Just make the whole thing a non-interactive .png file.
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.
Farmhouse modern
Also anything that looks like it comes from Kirkland's, because there's a good bit of overlap:
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.
Big garages on the front of houses, with front door hidden. Hate Hate Hate the garage houses with my whole soul.
They're called "snout houses," because the garage makes them look like they have a big, ugly pig snout.
must look ultra sexy for car brained people
touch screens aren't a design trend. they're a way to save cost.
San-serif fonts across everything.
websites that scroll wrong, and then they stop dead on some animation. Automatic nope on the product.
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