"Squircles", Just make shit square you fuckers I hate you
this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2025
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Electron apps. Write native apps. I don’t need a simple todo app using 300MB of RAM.
The problem is that when we rely on capitalist companies to produce the software we rely on, they will reduce cost as much as possible. This leads to them not wanting to pay for separate teams to develop native desktop applications on Windows, macOS or Linux.
While I hate Electron apps as well, they are how Linux became much more able to run these proprietary apps society depends on. We know the capitalist companies wound’t invest in native Linux software, as the user base is too small.
Agreed. This is why I still subscribe to the Asahi Linux Patreon, even though two of their best people are gone. I don't even run Linux as my primary OS. I run it on mini PCs for server stuff, but I own Apple Silicon hardware and I want the option to go Linux if I feel the need.
Imagine Electron for your whole OS (I realize why this is a silly statement, please don't correct me).
This button “style.” WTF even is this? It’s objectively and functionally terrible.
Also McDonald’s brutalism. But then, I’m happy not to eat there.
Worse than the squircle button design?
- the height of the "Home" button isn't even the same as the rest of the other buttons
- no spacing between the buttons
- the element surrounding those buttons don't even contain buttons properly
- lack of proper spacing between the buttons and the containing element
I am not wanting vast swathes of white space between elements, but if you're giving them background colors so that you indicate where the user can click (and thus interact with the button) at least have some decency to give them some breathing room. Sure, when hovering you can add an effect such that it either changes color, brightness, or gains a glowy border or what have you, but most of the time none of those elements are hovered! You'd be seeing them all crammed together like sardines in a tube!!
Oh, and I got so riled up that I didn't even address that out of place "ExtraCare scan in store" element. Why is it even covering the "Discover" text? Was the foreground some interactive element that just popped up?
Sorry. The more I try to make sense of the UI, the more I think rounded/squircle buttons are the least of the problems there.
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Someone on the design team heard that squircles are the latest shit and put zero thought into implementing them.
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Every electronic item whether it be a hot water kettle, air conditioner or an UPS backup in my camper, even my electric toothbrush has to make a noise, a bing or beep when either the things starts, changes phase or finishes.
That appley design. Mouse, keyboard, bubbley UI it all just disgusts me and I hate that it affects Windows 11
Shame because Apple design language came from one of the most humanistic designers of the 20th century: Deiter Rams. It's sad to see his philosophy be so misused by 21st cent. tech companies
Long winding UI Dialouge trees that you can get "stuck" in! If my settings are invalid, let me out of of the menu with as little consiquences and sacrifices as you can manage. I may need to back out to go grab data or change a setting on a page you decided to make before (hell even after) the one that wont let me continue and/or go back.
Windows's "wizard" style dialouges just suck!
Infinite scroll
Enshitification of search results when shopping
Planned obsolescence
The removal of bezels on phones, the camera cutouts sometimes have issues and its all together worse, just for a technically larger screen, and Apps, so many apps are just packaged web browsers, but with more access to private information and such.
I don’t understand why they need the have the lenses in a bump. Just make the phone a bit thicker with a bigger battery
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Apps/websites that log you out too frequently for no good reason
They all have 2 factor authentication too. Sometimes I just want to be in another room than my god damn phone.
I think USB finger scanners are quite cheap though
High wasted jeans, they make your legs look too long and your butt to be infinitely high, I still love you though.
Going to present an alternative take.
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It's very hard to find unique colors these days. Everything is becoming color graded for digital. That means everything starts looking the same because screen displays are limited, especially in the web.
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I haven't seen it much in the last year or so, but Corporate Memphis art style in any and all tech was causing so much rage inside of me. I'm so relieved it's not so much a thing anymore, but for a few years it was everywhere.
Boring flat dark design interfaces.
I miss the CDE colour scheme. The BeOS funky 3D icons. Buttons that look like buttons. Tabs that look like tabs. Now everything is just flat, bland and monochromatic. It's sad.
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