Everybody everywhere in the whole wide world is wearing blundstone boots!
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Heatpumps in front of houses.
Removing or replacing decades old proven and studied ui elements because fuck you user.
Nothing is ever done, even when it evolves to a great functional state that everyone is familiar with, and it works perfectly well. No, we need to fiddle with it to "keep it fresh" which inevitably makes it worse in some way.
I hate Google's material design with a passion. Everything looks exactly the same, and many buttons and other touch elements are indistinguishable from highlights and general design elements.
I would like to change the radio station in a school zone and not run over a bunch of kids because I had to take my eyes off the road. Touchscreens are more distracting to use than my phone, which I don't like to use while driving because it is distracting enough.
Touchscreens absolutely do not belong in cars and I hope my car with buttons doesn't fucking die before the trend dies.
Material design. Everything must be so flat that you cannot see if it’s a button or just something highlighted.
Camera bumps on phones
That's not a design decision per se, but a physical limitation of camera lenses and light.
The thickness* of the device could be considered a design decision.
Make the phone thicker and give me more battery. They chose to make a bump instead. Assinine.
It's a design decision that had to be made because they wanted to put bigger cameras in yes, pretty much all physical design decisions have to be made around physical limitations.
Cameras and microphones in "smart" TVs. There's a reason why when the current TV I use as a monitor dies that I'd be more than willing to take it to a repair shop than replace it.
Also, on the subject of that TV, I'd be lucky to find a modern model that's even half of double the size of my current one. It feels impossible to find anything anywhere near 1080x1920 resolution. Maybe I'm bad at finding them, but you know, finding anything like that from known, reputable companies today. Hell, I even looked at a few Japanese brands from their Japanese websites and all the models were looking like American super sized models.
San-serif fonts across everything.
Beige.
Putting a bunch of unskippable bullshit in front of a game I'm doing to play.
I don't need to know how much you all jerk yourself off to your own studio's logo.. I just wanna play. Can you get that shit out of my face please or let me courtesy-skip it after 1 second?
Dark pattern design obviously
When someone puts a house up for sale and all the photos of the house are photoshopped in some way, with fake added furnishings in every room. I'd so much rather see an empty room than that fake shit. Or hell, even if it's not empty, show me the current owner's shit, I don't care.
Why does every apartment I ever live in now never have laundry in unit, and requires you use a mobile app w/ an account to pay to do laundry. Why do I need to load a digital wallet that requires I pay a fee if I only want to add just the amount for one load? It's absurd. Let me put quarters in.
Sounds like an easier job for the landlord/owner, not having to manage coins and exchange.
Sure, but it makes it impossible for anyone that doesn't have a smartphone with Bluetooth to use them, and makes me have another account I don't want, among other issues. If the apartment's WiFi has issues, the machines lose connection and you can't use them, It's a vastly worse experience then using quarters or even just a card reader.
starting to run into this in some hotels too. fucking stupid.
I bought a dryer and it has "AI Dry." Which I'm fairly sure is not. It's just the "sensor dry" feature that dryers have had for decades. Except I can't control the amount of heat (no "low heat" option) so it ends up being fairly useless. This is also the default option whenever the dryer turns on, so yay.
We recently bought a dryer and it's "eco mode" means we gotta run it two or three times before things are dry. How the eff is that eco at all???
Don't get me started on eco on the washer. Too late, it means there won't be enough water to COVER ALL THE CLOTHES.
Well that's just silly
AI dry. fuck off haha
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