I personally hate rounded corners and shadows added everywhere. Makes most things look crappy and smudged.
White space.
So many UIs in my education programs and my work as a teacher just fucking love to leave huge piles of unused space and hide the options I am looking for in a drop down menu off a drop down menu.
Use the space. Give me buttons. Take options out of menus in menus in some absurd, backwards attempt at achieving “minimalism”, because you don’t understand what the word means, and make a UI that minimizes the time between when I load the thing, and when I get to what I am here for.
Lemmy is guilty of this too. I have a giant 4K monitor, why is all the content squashed into a teeny tiny sub-1000 pixel column in the middle of a sea of white? There is no reason I should ever have to scroll on a 4K screen to see a standard Lemmy homepage. Old Reddit got this right (same with mlmym) but default Lemmy UI needs the option to stretch. I have a userstyle installed that does this but it’s not perfect.
I think that everything is developed for phones, and then scaled to the desktop. I used to be you had to fight with a desktop site or app on a phone, now the opposite is true. (I honestly have no clue what I’m talking about, but from my experience it seems like that is the case.)
