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I hate the Nondescript Icon Movement. The Hamburger should die together with Three Dots, Angle Brackets and other geometric shapes that have a chutzpah to call

I hate the Nondescript Icon Movement. The Hamburger should die together with Three Dots, Angle Brackets and other geometric shapes that have a chutzpah to call themselves icons. Not to mention they killed the Tooltips! These things don't appear in the vacuum - the Hamburger Menu originated from the Celtic Knot Menu, which was originally at the end of the Ribbon. The Ribbon itself confused the use cases of the Menu and the Toolbar, and was rightly criticized for that. I am just learning Emacs and it's a little paradox that this aspie guy Richard Stallman is the one who got so many things around the UI right. We are unfortunately confusing "easy to learn" with "dumbed down so much there is nothing to learn".

mercer 11y ago
The three dots at least make a bit more sense in that it's been a common way to represent 'there will be a next step before this action is performed'. I'm sure tons of people don't know about this - I remember it took me quite a while to realize that that's what the '...' represented in Windows/OSX menus - but at least with the dots people have had more than a decade of time to figure this out.
pandler 11y ago
The one thing that frustrated me the most about Android was being confused about what the icons meant, especially when trying to copy text[1]. Select text > Think for a few seconds about which one of these similar looking icons means "copy" > press buttons until I figure it out. [1] http://www.droid-life.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/cut-copy-paste-lollipop2.jpg http://www.droid-life.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/cut-cop...
- 72deluxe 11y ago
  Android buttons can have hints associated with them, so if you long-press on a button, a tooltip/hint will be presented (if the developer bothered adding tooltip text)