100% agree.
I’ve been saying this for a while — the vast majority of UI design today seems to follow what I call the 20-20-20 rule: i.e. aimed at 20-somethings with 20/20 vision. Especially on multi-touch devices, where discoverability is already bad to begin with.
And that “users internalise the blame for their inability to comprehend the UI” makes me furious too. When I worked on this stuff 30 years ago, the aim for UI design was exactly to *avoid* this. https://social.coop/@adamgreenfield/117076914581549289
Riccardo Mori
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