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

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

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[–] fubo 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Skeuomorphic design stinks. It showed up beginning with QuickTime 4 on the Macintosh, with curvy rounded buttons as if it was some kind of midrange stereo equipment. Soon there were serious apps with goddamn late 1970s wood paneling. And buttons with little glowy imitation LEDs under them instead of an obvious selected/unselected display.

Expose the app's controls in a way that fits neatly into the surrounding interface and is easily learnable by the typical user. Don't pretend that it's thirty to fifty years ago and you're building a piece of luxury hardware. You're not. It's a program on a modern computer system, and it can bloody well act like it.