<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://adhd.irenes.space/@ireneista" class="u-url mention">@<span>ireneista</span></a></span> <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.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</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> Perhaps tangential, and if so, I apologize, but I tend to see user interfaces as an implicit social contract between designers and users — if the user takes the time to learn the UI metaphors, then the designer promises them some benefit via the tool itself.</p><p>Much of the cheese-moving kinds of updates or the coercive locked-down UI models common in post-WIMP applications strike me as violating that contract.</p>
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