<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.transneptune.net/@owen" class="u-url mention">@<span>owen</span></a></span> my ideology remains that of the 1991 macintosh, that there are some things that can be intuitive to a true newbie. there used to be a Theory of this.</p><p>part of this is the "visual metaphor" i.e. draw a connection to a real-world thing. post-2010 design rejects this because making reference to real-world objects can mean referencing things that either lack universality or have themselves been obsoleted by computers. but i think post-2010 design is worse, so something there worked</p>
