Original question text by @phantomwise@lemmy.ml

What are the modern design trends you hate most? Feel free to rant! Mine are:

  • Physical buttons are out of fashion, now EVERYTHING must have a touch screen instead! Especially if it makes the appliance more inconvenient to use. Like having to press a flimsy touch screen ten times to scroll through a washing machine’s programs instead of just turning a physical knob and pressing a physical start button.
  • Every website looks like it’s made for a phone and was vomited by the same app in slightly different flavors of vomit.
  • Actually EVERYTHING looks like it’s made for a phone… Like what’s the deal with all those hamburger menus on DESKTOP apps? Please just put a regular menu and same me some pointless clicking, it’s not like you’re lacking screen space. I especially hate that those menus can’t be opened from the keyboard like regular menus.
  • magic_lobster_party@fedia.io
    105·
    2 days ago

    Showing ”2 weeks ago” or ”1 month ago” instead of the actual date. ”1 month ago” can be anything between 30 days and 60 days ago.

    • Camelbeard@lemmy.world
      20·
      1 day ago

      We use gitlab and I knew my coworker commited something yesterday, I deployed a new version yesterday but I wasn’t sure if I deployed before or after his commit. Why do they just show yester instead of a normal timestamp. Do these developers think we can’t read?

      • aesthelete@lemmy.world
        5·
        16 hours ago

        I honestly think a lot of it is that they have to keep twiddling with shit to have something to do.

        These pieces of garbage have come across my desk as “requirements” too because they get copied and pasted from other “best of breed” apps from the web.

        Most of the designers I’ve encountered in my day to day work love nothing better than to copy from other apps rather than actually think for fifteen seconds about how to design something.

    • qevlarr@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 days ago

      Even worse: “last week/month/year” lumps everything together when you start the next week/month/year

    • nicerdicer@feddit.org
      3·
      1 day ago

      The option is called “relative date” (as opposed to absolute date). On macos you can switch it off:

      • open Finder, go to list view
      • select very first item in hierarchy
      • click on the little triangle next to the (folder-)icon to expand but press the option key wihle doing so
      • hit “cmd” + “J” - a settings panel will open
      • there is a tick box that says “relative date” that needs to be disabled (unticked)
      • if you want to apply this settings as the new default setting for all finder windows, press the “apply as standard”-button at the bottom. All dates will show now the actual date instead of “today”, “yesterday” and such.

        • nicerdicer@feddit.org
          1·
          3 hours ago

          Tthis setting is not intended to apply to websites. With this setting you can change whether the date is shown as absolute (dd.mm.yyyy) oder relative (today, yesterday,…) for your own files on your computer.

      • magic_lobster_party@fedia.io
        11·
        1 day ago

        It’s annoying when going through a list of multiple ”1 month ago” entries. Maybe I’m looking for an entry at a certain date. Aim with mouse, wait one second, repeat.

        What I could easily visually identify in less than 1 second can take more than 10 seconds to find.

        It also greatly increases the cognitive load of using the program. If there are many entries to look for, then it’s going to be difficult to keep all actual dates in memory.

        ”Where was the 14 April entry? I need to check again. Ah there it is! Now I need to compare it against the 30 April entry. Where was it again? It was just in front of me…”

        Then mouse hover doesn’t work on mobile.