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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] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When every app looks the same

Hot take: I miss apps looking the same. Consistency is good because it reduces cognitive load when switching between apps. No need to figure out how to navigate an app when it's using a standard UI toolkit for the system it's running on (or at least a popular one that other apps use).

Remember the Windows 95/98 days? You could set a system theme with custom colours, fonts, etc and it'd apply consistently across all apps. The majority of apps used the standard system UI components.

I don't like every app being a special snowflake that doesn't follow the platform's UI design standards. Don't even get me started on Electron apps where every app is custom-rendered...