• lime!@feddit.nu
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        9 days ago

        i mean, the most common radios still worked like that when modern uis were being developed, and they did user studies to figure out what people would understand.

        try tracing back the lineage of the “hamburger menu”

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          9 days ago

          Oh, I completely understand. It’s just one of the things that’s a relic today and will be weird for the generation that grows up today. Just like the floppy disk symbol for saving or the folder icon for loading.

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            9 days ago

            the worst part about all of it is looking at the absolutely insane amounts of user studies that were done for the first GUIs. there are mountains of data. and now we just let the intern do whatever css trick is cool that month.