Asklemmy

The generic and uninspired look of flat design

Material You/automatic color themes. I have a huge collection of wallpapers I've built up over the years and now I can only use a select few unless I want the entire phone os to be themed in ugly pastel colors like light brown or yellow or puke green. I literally just want an alternative option to pick my own color scheme or at this point I'd even be happy with the standard blue accent for everything instead of basing the entire os theme on random colors from my wallpaper. I also hate the rounded corners though! Especially the way phone displays are all rounded off and it just absolutely wrecks the resolution of everything. Having a camera sensor in the middle of the screen is kinda annoying too

Probably controversial, but as a full-stack dev that is front-end leaning, I hate everything to do with "material". Be it MUI or Angular Material or otherwise, I hate it all and advocate heavily at any gig to stray away from it whenever possible.

Every Gnome trend on the Desktop. Perfect for tablets, but it doesnt make sense?

I don't like the Apple-like transparency and long transitions on everything. I like some, snappy transitions, but otherwise it just seems unstable, like it might vanish at any moment. A thing about material design is that it actually feels material, solid.

Flat design and the disappearing of skeumorphic design.

The fricking hamburger menu on desktop applications. I don't care if there's an option to use it or even if it's the default option as long as there's a way to get a traditional menu bar. But when it's the only option the designers can fuck right off. Monopoly and privacy aside, I'll never use Chrome just because I have to use a stupid hamburger menu.

I completely understand why it's used on mobile devices, and thus I get why it's used for non-mobile devices. People who are used to it from mobile want it on the desktop. Or maybe your vertical screen space is limited and it lets you get back a line of space for other stuff. But it's really just poorly re-creating the menu bar while requiring (at least) an additional click. When there's no good reason for it, it just sucks. Give me an option to use it or not!

I hate whenever they randomly decided to flip the alphabetical column sort arrow from pointing down to up. Makes no sense to me, isn't the concept of an arrow supposed to represent 'hey, you start at this point and proceed in this direction'?

But no no, some nitwit decided to make the arrow just point to the beginning of the alphabet instead.

The equipment wheel on games. Metal gear solid did it best

Non minimalist designs

Spoilers in the titles, descriptions, and thumbnails of TV series. Looking at you, Plex.

Rounded corners when it could fill my entire monitor and now leave white pixels in the corners

Light gray on slightly darker gray for anything, especially scrollbars.

I'm someone who doesn't consent to data collection when it comes to choices given by GDPR - if I visit a new website and I get the popup that says how they value my privacy, I'm always going to customize the settings and have everything disabled.

However, as of "recently" a lot of websites have added a "legitimate interest" button which as far as I understand is a loophole, and unlike the other advertising options, they're not checked off by default which is annoying.

I want "realistic" UI, like macOS 10, not the flat sh*t we see nowadays.

Websites are not sliding puzzle games. Stop randomly floating bits over text. It sucks on mobile too.

I mostly use MacOS, my biggest gripe is how they are gradually making the whole thing look like your iPhone. I found it impossible to justify. It's basically dumbing down the UI.