Original question text by @phantomwise@lemmy.ml

What are the modern design trends you hate most? Feel free to rant! Mine are:

  • Physical buttons are out of fashion, now EVERYTHING must have a touch screen instead! Especially if it makes the appliance more inconvenient to use. Like having to press a flimsy touch screen ten times to scroll through a washing machine’s programs instead of just turning a physical knob and pressing a physical start button.
  • Every website looks like it’s made for a phone and was vomited by the same app in slightly different flavors of vomit.
  • Actually EVERYTHING looks like it’s made for a phone… Like what’s the deal with all those hamburger menus on DESKTOP apps? Please just put a regular menu and same me some pointless clicking, it’s not like you’re lacking screen space. I especially hate that those menus can’t be opened from the keyboard like regular menus.
  • Hello Hotel@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Is that because Color != Material? That computer colors is an oversumplification of physical material surfaces? Is it the fact that colors are rounded to the nearest integer (commonly) within a 0-255 range for R,G and B? Or both?

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      1 month ago

      You have Panteone for house paint and design , ACES for movies and ICC for your digital cameras - that’s what I know. Color values are so normalized to see something that’s unique you need to use optical camera instead of digital or make your own dye.

    • Feathercrown@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      I wouldn’t expect it to be the rounding; either it’s a material thing or they’re talking about colors that can’t be represented inside the RGB color space.