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.
this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2025
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QR coding everything. It has it uses and is practical in certain use-cases, but don't use it everywhere.
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.
Thatβs actually a huge problem and I donβt get why it is not talked about more. We all learn about validating links in emails and are very careful about clicking anything there. But QR codes we just scan and open without thinking.
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.
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/
Flat pack furniture. Everything being reduced to the cheapest to make and cheapest to ship.
Corporate Memphis, and Iβll 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. Itβs like meeting Clint Eastwoods great grandchild who has a mullet, has no option on anything, and works as a real estate agent. Itβs 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.
You can bring back the old control scheme! You can even flip it which my gf uses cause it's easier for her to reach.
- houses designed as if they were some private plastic surgeon's office;
- neopentec churches with black walls.