🔥 New blog post! 🔥

I started writing a toot about @github’s new comment UI and it somehow turned into a whole 1.7k word article on simplicity, usability, their evolution, and the effects of poor UIs. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Minimalist Affordances: Making the right tradeoffs
https://lea.verou.me/blog/2023/minimalist-affordances/

The "vulnerability" here is the forced iOS monoculture that puts all users at risk any time a bug is found in Apple's web engine, which Cupertino has serially disinvested in for more than a decade. Engine diversity won't fix any specific issue, but it gives us better remediations when these sorts of things occur:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/hackers-can-force-ios-and-macos-browsers-to-divulge-passwords-and-a-whole-lot-more/

Here is my (slightly less unhinged than I expected) musings on the current state of designing for the web.

Generally, I think we lost something when we stopped calling people web designers and forced people to pick a side.

https://heather-buchel.com/blog/2023/10/why-your-web-design-sucks/

Dang it, nobody proposed drop caps for Interop 2024. Firefox still doesn’t support initial-letter, and there are probably other smaller issues.

edit: I don’t like how Mastodon puts the hashtag *below* the image, making it easy to miss.

#Interop2025