Corporate whimsy. I forget what the name coined for it was. It has bubbly oddly proportioned people and pastel colors. As an example.

Modern construction on a budget. It uses little more than reinforced cardboard and a moisture barrier. Sometimes the cardboard isn’t even glued or nailed in. So it can literally get unfolded by the wind, and suddenly the only thing preventing your house from getting water damage is a .3mm piece of plastic wrap that you HOPE the contractors didn’t damage or install improperly.

Here’s one such house. I don’t know if it would even last a decade without significant repairs. They voided the warranty on the roof already too, so you could be out tens of thousands of dollars before you even move in.

https://youtu.be/mRuO62aNBEE

Touch screens on fitness watches is the dumbest shit. I straight up can’t use it while jogging and sweating. I just need a couple real buttons, but good luck finding that.

you’re not complaining about “design trends”, you’re complaining about capitalism.

everything is touchscreen because it’s cheaper than mechanical buttons.

all products looks the same because 1. it’s cheaper 2. mass appeal is more profitable than niche, and 3. it’s risk free

everything’s an app because they can collect data, push notifications, and force you into closed ecosystems.

laptops are thin because they probably sell more as a lot of people prioritize lightweight and less bulky laptops to carry them around easier. phones are going the other way but when you’re talking laptops it’s kilograms rather than grams so the difference is more important.

finally rounded corners are probably a design trend, although i am generally in favor of them.

Colors. House color options are stupid as shit. Especially if you’re selling. Car color options. Why is everything so boring? Where’s the teal and hot pink, and yellow with red stripes, amd rainbow, and glittery purple, and burnt orange and…

All houses are mostly beige-y white, or soft dark colors or something boring. All cars are black, white, or boring shades of blue, maybe red. No interesting shades. And then the inside of the car is like beige.

Meanwhile electronics, especially computer parts have too many fucking lights that are distracting as shit.

• Light and dark modes with nothing in between. Platinum from MacOS and the default look from Windows 95 were crisp and bright without burning out your eyeballs.
• Wasted screen space. People laugh at Japanese websites for looking too busy, but I’d much rather deal with that than scroll for ages or look for links buried 3 levels deep in a hamburger menu.
• The idea that everything needs a backlit color LCD screen.
• Modern standby on laptops. Sure I could just hibernate it, but that’s very inelegant when S3 sleep was perfectly fine before.
• Glued-together electronics.

Big phones. Why wont they produce anything that fits in one hand anymore?

Car centric cities by far. Bring back walkable neighborhoods and give me options to move around instead of only being able to be stuck inside a car

• Rounded corners. Everywhere. They lose so much space, especially on small screens, and everything feels crammed.

• No personalization anywhere. You used to be able to completely customize social media profiles, to the point of editing your page’s CSS directly.

• Modern OSes (except linux or BSD based ones which are not android) also have no color or personalization. You usually have the slabs of white on light mode, or the slabs of blak on dark mode, with only one color you can choose for some details.

• JavaScript animations on every. Single. Website. I have an old phone (because I don’t like modern stuff), and it struggles with almost every modern, animated site. Is it really necessary to add all that js and animations?

• No headphone jacks or expandable storage on modern phones. It probably costs cents to add those features. I know phones don’t usually have expandable storage because it makes you buy a new one once you fill all your storage, and I know they don’t have audio jacks because it makes you buy the company’s wireless headphones, but I need those features in my phone.

• Why does everything have to be a web app now? Have people forgotten about actual softwate, that you own, that doesn’t need internet to work, that uses almost no resources and is faster and has more features than a web app? We got everything backward. Sites that should be webs like reddit will ask you to download their apps, while microsoft will try to code Word in javascript and sell it to you as an “upgrade”.

• I hate subscriptions with passion, especially for software.

Did I write this?

Actually EVERYTHING looks like it’s made for a phone…

Most people don’t use computers :(

I think the number of computer users stayed about the same, and the biggest Eternal September wave has seen at least 10x as many people getting online phone-only

• Giant fucking (landing page img|carousel)s
• Cutesy (error msg|splash screen) illustrations
• Camera bumps . Wanna lay your phone flat ? Requires case now !
• This stupid fucking thing :

The advantage of an app is that they can use more permissions etc to spy on you even more compared to your browser.

And don’t forget the biggest plus; they can also sell your data! Isn’t that wonderful?

Webpages bouncing stuff around as various elements load in.

Back in the day, the space would be reserved, so if something hadn’t loaded yet, that space would be blank.

Nowadays, you’ll be reading something (or worse – trying to click on something), and it’ll get bounced around because some other element of the webpage got loaded in.

The trend toward subdued color palettes. Every new home is decorated in “millennial gray.” Most cars are black, white, gray, or silver. You have to go out of your way to find bright, colorful clothing or furniture. It’s incredibly boring and I can’t wait for the pendulum to swing back the other way.