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.
  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    22 days ago

    Agreed. This is why I still subscribe to the Asahi Linux Patreon, even though two of their best people are gone. I don’t even run Linux as my primary OS. I run it on mini PCs for server stuff, but I own Apple Silicon hardware and I want the option to go Linux if I feel the need.

    Imagine Electron for your whole OS (I realize why this is a silly statement, please don’t correct me).