I used to be able to point to ling's cars as a holdout of fun web page design, but they've changed v.v
https://web.archive.org/web/20110108151026/https://www.lingscars.com/
this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2025
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- lights on everything
- diagonal house, what are you even doing?
- Increased phone power matched by increased surveillance and advertising
- hats not having an extra space to remove sweat and warm sticky air. Bring back lifted asian conical hats!
- App and website having different functionality, and you have to use the app
Whatโs a diagonal house? I image searched it but still not clear.
Slanted house, apparently. Just taking up extra space and annoying to place furniture.
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Flat pack furniture. Everything being reduced to the cheapest to make and cheapest to ship.
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.
Thereโs a special place in hell for CSS flexboxes
This trend is, incidentally, solely because we a higher percentage of programmers knew what they were doing.
It's easier to build a webpage, but more people can make them worse quality, now.
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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.
Most cars are black, white, gray, or silver.
I fucking hate these new vehicles with the paint that has no sparkle to it, especially the horrible grey one. So called Putty ass-whips
Your link made me remind one more thing i absolutely hate: TALKING HEADS. Like bloody hell TV and video was made to present visual content and comments and the same time, not for me to look on some selfappointed youtube personality yapping just so his video is few minutes longer wasting my time.
Also podcasts, audiobooks and generally the trend to make everything audible. I mean i do not mind this by itself, but i would love to have a transcript so i don't need to wade through hours of senseless yapping and unfun banter to find the info i need to.
It looks like primer and the car is unfinished
Don't worry, it will. I'm a designer and the one thing you can count is all of us designers get bored every few years and flip things around. That's how buttons keep shifting from rounded corners to square corners every few years.
I hate that. I had my home built to spec a few years ago. The exterior siding is cedar shake stained a chocolatey brown with forest green trim, and the interior is white walls but with natural wood trim, pale golden laminate wood flooring, and two tone hickory wood cabinets, and the interior doors are all just natural wood unpainted.
Iโve leaned into the wood aesthetic with my DIY standing desk and custom pine desktop stained a dark red oak color, among various other earth tone color hints, and splashes of brighter decoration here and there.
Was going for โcozy cabin/cottageโ and I think we nailed it. Itโs very rustic.
I really hate the modern trends of white, black, steel, and glass.
It's the shape of things, too. They have no character.
I was shopping for door knobs recently, because all the knobs in this house are spherical and smooth. They're impossible to grip. We have a disabled person in the house who struggles to turn them. Gloves slip right off.
At the hardware store is an entire aisle full of doorknobs, but nearly all of them are the exact same smooth spherical shape. The rest were ugly rectangular lever styles that work but look very industrial in a home that's mostly natural textures.
Somehow all these brands, finishes, locking features, price ranges, dozens of product variations, and literally only two doorknob shapes. Both so minimalist as to be almost impractical.
I had to settle for the lever style for one door, and just put grip tape on the others.
In many places doorknobs are being phased out of codes precisely because they aren't accessible like a lever style is.
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Yeah it's so depressing when everything looks dull and muted everywhere ๐ฌ
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- Completely flat chiclet keyboards on laptops. It drives me absolutely insane because I can barely tell if my fingers are aligned with the keys. Thanks, Apple!
- Hidden controls on desktop software or desktop websites (ex: hidden exit, forward, and back controls on picture galleries)
- Hiding or collapsing scrollbars on desktop software
In general, it seems like there's a major trend in design of form beating the heck out of function. It looks pretty! Who cares if you can actually use it or not?
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Everything you said.
Programs > apps (in the sense of the word)
Everything looks nearly identical online
Stupid delayed popups right where you're about to click
Websites making ANY chime/beep/noise in an attempt to direct you to their garbage robot support
Robot support
No companies having phones anymore..zero accountability.
Everything being forced to some social media garbage to tell a company how their service/product is broken and you need help
Stupid delayed popups right where youโre about to click
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Right the robot support... Especially when the only way to reach support on a website is to go through the annoying support chatbot first... and it's designed intentionally this way to increase the chances of you just giving up ๐ก
Robot support
I had a good, brief conversation with one the other day. I told it I was going to their competitor because they didn't have annoying chat pop-ups.
Why does everything need to be an app by the way?
So they can track you and collect your data.
On that same note, every appliance being designed with internet connectivity when there's no conceivable reason for it to be there. No, I don't want my fridge or my thermostat or my coffee maker to connect to the internet. And I am never going to put one of those ~~surveillance devices~~ smart speakers in my home, ever.
But if you don't, how will they charge you a subscription for continued usage of your fridge?
What management seems as innovation should result in lost heads. Their lost heads. Fire those people.
QR coding everything. It has it uses and is practical in certain use-cases, but don't use it everywhere.
saw a mall once that didn't have its hours printed or posted anywhere and only had a printed-out QR code u had to scan if u wanted to check the hours. turned my ass right tf around and never came back.
Maybe I'm paranoid but it also seems very insecure. I've been to some restaurants where they have the menu as a qr code and you even pay for your food from the website. What's to stop a bad actor from creating a fake version of your website and stealing card data? They just need to create a qr sticker and put it on top of the one on the table.
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UI elements that expand and cover up other UI elements when you mouse over them.
"Flat" color schemes where you can't even tell where one UI element ends and the other begins.
Infinite scroll instead of pagination.
Corporate Memphis, and Iโll get ahead of the curve, whatever its successor is. Probably some kind of AI-chic.
Milano mepphis was one of the last hurrah of post modern. A decent trend at least. Corporate Memphis is an abomination. Itโs like meeting Clint Eastwoods great grandchild who has a mullet, has no option on anything, and works as a real estate agent. Itโs not wrong but lack of character and conviction is such a bore.
I suspect Corporate Memphis is partly successful because it works with ambiguous skin colours, so it automatically ticks diversity boxes without the artist having to think too hard about representation.
My prediction is that the successor will double down on that. I hope it's cartoony style anthropomorphic animals.
AI
The home, back, and switch app buttons on Android being replaced with that bar like on the iPhone.
I especially miss the back button, swiping from the edge of the screen is nowhere near as ergonomic. It also replaced the ability to reveal the side panel by swiping from the left edge, so now you have to tap the hamburger menu way up at the top left corner of the screen for it, which requires either your other hand or you have to shimmy the phone down your hand until you can reach it.
Also, when you have a full screen video playing, you have to swipe up once to reveal the bar, and then again to actually close out of the app. That made sense with buttons but why the hell is it still the case with the bar?
Double tapping the switch app button to switch between the two most recent apps was also more convenient than swiping up to reveal the app manager and dragging the window to the right, and when you want to go to the previous app, whether it's on the right or left side of the current one seems to depend on how long you've been on the app for, which means you can never build up muscle memory since it changes all the time.
Another case of Google trying to imitate Apple's UX but seemingly not actually doing any of the usability testing and polishing that Apple does, and generally making it both worse than Apple's implementation and worse than what was there before.
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- houses designed as if they were some private plastic surgeon's office;
- neopentec churches with black walls.