The hamburger menu, the account picker and the huge share pill, they all look exactly like that!
Congrats OP this meme actually annoyed me π
this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2026
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Yesterday describing how to do a thing to my wife over the phone "The menu button" "There is no menu button" "It's a hamburger icon" "What?" "3 lines" "How is that a menu?"
I often help my parents use their phones.
It is so hard when every app they use has its own garbage bespoke design language and you get such pearls as:
- Buttons and tabs can be any combination of Colored Square, White Square with Outline or Grey Text on White Background (and they switch every screen!)
- Modals without a scroll bar so you can't tell there's a "Confirm" button at the bottom
- Awfully confusing share dialogs before the Native system share sheet opens
- Inconsistent iconography
- Overflow menus hidden behind 3 dots, 3 lines or neither
I feel like it's almost second nature for tech savy people to wade thru this crap but for your average granny this shit is practically unparseable.
Iβm working on a mobile app, this commentary is very helpful to me.
If you want to help the grannies of the world, grab an older budget device with a not so big screen resolution and crank the device scale / text size super high.
Man, you would not believe what havoc that causes on most apps.
I know responsive design is hard but damn...
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And then we have insanity like Instagram, where the logo opens a separate area
How the hell does the logo ever load anything but the home screen?
Back during covid we sent my wife's grandparents a smart phone so they could video call. They only had a dumb brick phone.
I forget what model but it was one specifically aimed at easy of use for seniors. We had it delivered so I could set it up. Then delivered it to them ready to go.
It was impossible. Even just answering a call being touch and hold the green circle then slide it 2cm in any direction and release took nearly an hour.
My wife does social care now and a client yesterday had managed to enable audio description on his firestick. This is what i was explaining. Hold back and menu on the remote to turn it on/off. He'd probably done it by accident and now his TV is explaining everything on screen after every button press and he has no clue where to even begin to turn it off. It's utterly incomprehensible. I'm sure they thought it was a good idea to have a way to turn it on that doesn't need you to see the screen.
We've got my 95 old grandma https://enna.care/ and she can use it. Instead of having to use the touch interface it works by placing cards on to an NFC reader.
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Very Adobe
Yet both should learn from each other.
The FOSS world needs more UX/UI specialists.
The FOSS world needs more UX/UI specialists.
Or even just hobbyistsβ¦
Personally I think a lot of FOSS maintainers are burning out. If you maintain a remotely popular project you basically have a second unpaid job.
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To be fair the left part also once was "Software, by corporation" (i.e. Photoshop CS and prior)
That's inevitable enshittification.
Yeah, they needed to capture a user base first and only then start enshittifying. This is what they always do - in software, hardware and other products & services
It kills me that fucking everything is a fucking website these days, even "desktop" applications.
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Also why the fuck do they need basically my entire identity just so i can write words on a document?
Might be wrong speak, or a new idea they can steal!
Or to train their shitty ai models?
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AutoCAD installing three million micro services just to get their shit pirated anyways.
So true. I don't miss the "subscribe to be able to write a page of text" lifestyle.
AI button pop up should cover about %70 of the screen
See, you're thinking like a user. You gotta think like a CEO tho. There's no AI button popup, the AI features are automatically activated when you use the tools. You gotta go into the settings and explicitly disable automatic AI actions. And only THEN do you get the AI popup to pwease use the AI features.
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I've been seeing more and more ~~open source~~ disclosed source software that fits the category on the right...
We tend to forget that the design on the left was the corporate ux language for a long time. Open source is just slower to fall for the trends, but they fall eventually.
This is about more than design. The right is pretty much just what flavor of the week looks like in CSS. This is about web devs infecting desktop software
But the icons are so much prettier on the right!
/s
And would you look at all that beautiful whitespace!
how it feels going from using a 2003 software for work to a newer version
It has gone the same way as physical goods. My parents still have appliances (food mixers things like that) that still work and they bought them in the 1980s. Good luck getting anything to last that long these days.
I'm sorry to say this, but this is survivorship bias. We produced plenty of crap that broke a few months after use even 50 years ago, it's just that you don't notice the crap because it was thrown away after it broke and all you see now is the stuff that surprisingly made it for decades. That's not to say that enshittification and planned obsolescence is not a thing, it's just not as extreme and "we used to build things that lasted" as people would like to believe.
It is true that merely from the observation of old things, you cannot conclude that all things lasted long.
But as a matter of fact, from different observations by many people and areas, mid- to high- end stuff really lasted much, much longer. It was as an average rule more simple, less compact, and it lasted and still lasts really long without degradation.
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Don't forget the popup as soon as you open the app for a "Limited Time Lightning Deal" of 25% off when you subscribe for 3 years with a price lock guarantee.
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It depends on several things which is preferable, at the end it's depends on the intentions and ethics of the author respect the user, on the other hand questionable in case of products (often also FOSS) from big corps where ethics respect the user are too often secundary. To say "OpenSource is always good and Proprietary crap" is a big mistake
A good article
Don't think that open source is immune to this, OnlyOffice has an AI button and many OSS devs are integrating Claude into their dev nowadays. It's getting annoying.
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Iβm a freelancer and unfortunately rely heavily on Microsoft. Havenβt had that stance for long, to be honest, but the past few months have been eye-opening. Iβm trying to go more European in the future, and Open Source where viable.
It is a little scary I have to admit. Iβm getting old enough to have worked with MS products for decades now, and am so used to them. Itβs also a challenge to myself to move away and try new things, as I believe this will be a selling point in the near future in my business.
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Apple Incorporatedβs software looks more like the one on the left, but with a way more refined user interfaceβ¦ If we want OSS to be as good as possible then we need to compare our favorite software with other good software, not with Microslop. UI design matters and we should discuss it with less of a bias.
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