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What UI design trend do you hate the most? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I personally hate rounded corners and shadows added everywhere. Makes most things look crappy and smudged.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Personally I hate the everything is flat with no borders. Like - what was wrong with buttons looking like buttons (3D and an animation WHEN YOU CLICKED THEM)? Now it's like - what's the button?
The "hamburger menu" - why can't we have the traditional set of menus across the top? No, now it's an extra click for no reason.
Why do we keep adding clicks to get to stuff? Why is right click -> more -> open in file manager -> rightclick -> properties so I can figure out where a shortcut GOES in Win10?
Hiding scroll bars, and not having the little buttons on the sides. Now I can't easily click on down or up to slightly scroll when I need to look for something, no on very log docs I'm just wildly swooping around.
Ever more clicks to do anything.

I actually think the root problem here is the minimalist design ideas. The problem is minimalism isn't some design handed down by God or something, and it works horribly when what you're trying to interact with ... is basically a Swiss Army Knife x 2 trillion. I find minimalism nice for a vase, or a single purpose tool or device. But for computers it either makes them ever harder to actually use (now we've got docks we have to carry around with our laptops so we can plug in a USB device or flash drive or monitor vs just having the ports on the laptop because... well having a bag of wires, dongles, and a dock is so minimalist right?), or basically hides / removes functions.

Remember all the things you could do in Windows 98 that you can't do in Win10? Like one control panel to go to. You could set window, menu etc fonts and colors. etc. I mean simple UI things - no, we've been slowly trying to go back to a very limited OS interface.

Granted, I don't use Windows for most stuff anymore, so it doesn't bother me as much, but some of this stuff just follows you. Gnome does this crap so I can't use that anymore and have to look for forks from the programs that have a usable UI.