On the desktop, a lot of programs have been removing and hiding capabilities to look more like tablets and phones. This sucks, as I’m using a desktop which has the room to show all the fiddly bits.

White background & gray text.

When did we shift away from black text?

There’s less contrast with gray, and on a lot of displays it’s more difficult to read, and more straining on the eyes.

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

Infinite scrolling

“Responsive design” that ignores me when I ask for the desktop site. Yes, I know it isn’t “optimized for my resolution”. Show it to me any way, damn it.

Whatever happened after the frutiger aero days. Everything after that era of design is just a shitty solid color with maybe a gradient color if the design team is feeling particularly zesty. Back then, UI’s were designed to be cozy and comfortable. Now it’s just stiff and professional.

I hate any UI element that uses infantile language.

oh no sorry but windows is bwoken =(

Just give me the error code, I’m not a child.

The trend to make an ad link suddenly appear right where and when the user is likely to press.

It’s funny to me, whenever this kind of threads pop up, there’s people arguing against and for the exact same things with upvotes for both. It’s like aesthetics are a personal and subjective opinion, or something.

Not necessarily UI but the overuse of javascript on most websites. It makes browsing the web on low power and old devices a nightmare.

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

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

Thankfully this aesthetic has died off in most places, but the 5 year old head unit in my car has weird 3D icons of all the menu items complete with drop shadows, skewed perspective as if they’re floating in space, and reflections. The background is some weird Tron shit and all the text looks like it’s supposed to be some medical tech company from 2010

The removal of borders on buttons. I don’t know how many times I’ve been using a piece of software and haven’t realized for a long while that some icon is actually a clickable thing and not just some UI decoration or something.

The removal of text in favor of icons. I hate having to memorize what all your icons mean in your app. Please just make text unless it’s something insanely obvious. It’s even worse when they neglect to put tool tips to tell you what the icon is supposed to mean

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.