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Why do we have such shit UI where it is more difficult to use? I'm sick of the flat look, with having no idea what is a button or a link.

Everything is bundled together with no separation, tabs, buttons, and lists touch each other and you have no idea where the boundaries are until you click it. Or the use of icons that I have no idea what they mean until after I click it.

What we have is a BUI, Brutalist User Interface with this "minimalism" design. I miss the days of having some skeuomorphism.

Why do we have such shit UI where it is more difficult to use? I'm sick of the flat look, with having no idea what is a button or a link. Everything is bundled together with no separation, tabs, buttons, and lists touch each other and you have no idea where the boundaries are until you click it. Or the use of icons that I have no idea what they mean until after I click it. What we have is a BUI, Brutalist User Interface with this "minimalism" design. I miss the days of having some skeuomorphism.

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I have no idea what half the symbols on modern app buttons represent. Why can't it just tell me what the button does, with, I donno, words?

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Then they would have to translate those words for the third-world users, whose crap languages would require resizing the UI elements.

In the 1990s, the glyphs that programs used were intuitive. Everyone knew, and still knows, what the Printer icon and the Disk icon do. Android and iOS went full retard and devised glyphs that are not intuitive at all, and the PC scene embraced the retardation.

Even cars in the 1990s had words on their dashboard controls, nowadays most everything (except for entertainment console/radio) is glyphs.

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I like a few glyphs.

Some of the new ones just make zero sense to me.

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I saw some article or video many years ago that claimed there was a conspiracy to dumb everything down to just use common, stock symbols for everything to make it easier for stupid/illiterate people to use. This of course being tailored for the global workforce that may not have any education at all. I wonder about it when I see certain symbols that make no sense to me, like maybe it means something in another culture or country. Just like I'm sure there are people who don't know what a floppy disk is and it's just some weird symbol for save.

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Same here, I don't know what some of them mean. Maybe they're designed to make sense to the billions of third-worlders?

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Yes, this is exactly what I mean. The glyphs on software and even in cars was intuitive. Nowadays I have no idea what some symbols mean.