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[-] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 43 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Honestly? Any of them except the last one. My preference would be 2005-2015, but any of them is better than what came after. Late 2010s was alright, but around 2020 you can really tell UI designers got their marching orders.

It's all so damn boring and lifeless. Rounded corners on literally everything for no reason other than trend chasing, wasted space and needless gaps between elements, white OR black - rarely anything else, lest it interfere with whatever systemwide adaptive coloring thing is running (even if there isn't one), boring and lifeless icons/logos, an obsession with "clean" and "streamlined" that effectively equates to the removal of usability for aesthetics, etc. All of it copy and pasted to every single piece of software or app or site.

Its ironic you put Corporate Memphis images next to it in the 2015-2024 section, because that is effectively what this trend in design aesthetic will be remembered as.

Bland, lifeless, safe, focus-grouped garbage, implemented by companies that have reached a point where the innovation is dead, corporate consolidation has effectively destroyed any room for something new and original to enter the space, and the only thing they do anymore is trend chase. Even the slightest bit of originality or doing something different from the market leader may risk the potential loss of a sliver of shareholder profit, and that simply must never be done.

And I swear to God, if I hear one more focus group generated argument about how rounded corners are more inviting or human, I am going to break into your home, and personally change every last single doorway into a hobbit hole, and every window into a port hole.

[-] mercano@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

The needless gaps are there for touchscreen optimization, even on things you never use a touchscreen on, like a desktop OS.

[-] FireWire400@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

I think it's to make desktop computing more approachable for people because smartphones are so ubiquitous nowadays and used by literally all age groups, so it makes a little bit of sense I guess.

[-] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago

Windows, pretty much the desktop OS still would like you to drag the screen up to start a login

Dude, you detected a mouse and keyboard during setup

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

... Can you turn my place into a Hobbit hole anyway?

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