Really love this analogy of a “ham biscuit sign” playfully used by Eric (npub18vj…g4zy) to describe how confusing user interfaces can be on the web. Consistency matters, and the web is missing a ton of it (date pickers and sign in forms come to mind). In the physical world I always get tripped up by debit / credit card readers when paying for something at a store; they always seem to behave slightly differently from one another and it often confuses me at least a little.
#accessibility #design #hamBiscuit
Chris Henrick
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2026-07-02 15:40:48 UTC
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