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Aside from the standard dark patterns and extraneous, feature-forcing bloat, I really dislike that flat-design trend. Not just does it look kinda bad, but everything is so physically bloated to try to separate it from everything else that you get notably less usable screen space resulting in annoyingly little information density.
I have the opposite tendencies. I much prefer flat UI over the tacky bezeled borders or bubble/graphics/garbage of Oldโข.
I agree. And those 3D icons that were popular once were the height of the garbage trend. Flat and minimalistic looks so much better.
What irks me is when an app or website has a UI design made of simple geometric elements like a 1980s Macintosh ... but with the responsiveness of an overloaded Windows 98 machine.
So that's why everything is enormous now!
Modern web design uses a LOT of padding and I hate it. I'm a developer and usually ask the designers if it's okay to remove some of the padding.