#Instagram has normalised that:
- text == button
- any element on screen == button
- random sections of the screen == button
- two things inside each other == two buttons
- two things so close to each other that you can't precisely target them == buttons
Can we please go back into the times when #UX was an actual discipline and not a corporate-wash buzzword that actually means "whatever it takes for the number go up"?
@MichalBryxi ok, but please do not return to the resizable windows paradigm :-) Too many overlapping windows on desktop was 1990's nightmare and one of reasons, why web page paradigm won over desktop paradigm (which was intended to be networked from the very beginning, in Xerox, but Xerox was afraid about decline of sales of their copy machines and Apple and Microsoft got it all creatively wrong).
It would be fun if eg. Fediverse UX took lessons from eg. Plan 9 UI, which was kind of visionary.
Instagram at least popularized clickable hashtags - when introducing Mastodon to newbies, I always suggest "use hashtags like on Instagram" and everybody knows. Even if I don't use Instagram at all :-)
@xChaos Not *exactly* know what you mean by overlapping windows, but:
- Working on desktop where you can have freely floating windows next to each other is an order of magnitude faster to work with & more intuitive than any attempts for split-screen that we can see on mobile. Does anyone actually, actively use split-screen & enjoy it?
- Browsers & their tabs are not necessarily anything different to apps on desktop & the dock. IMO it's only different that it scales slightly better, but not "solved" at all. The "too many tabs" problem is so prelevant. See browsers trying to "fix it somehow" & failing miserably. See memes about "too many tabs". See people struggling with so many tabs that they spawn new windows to be able to keep that mess somehow organised.
- I agree that hashtags are a brilliant invention. The (browse) UX of that makes it super easy to jump around & explore. Any tiny bit advanced search again fails horribly on Insta.
Now looking on some demonstration of how the UX of Plan9 works. So far ... not impressed 🫥
Michal Bryxí 🌱
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