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Hamburgers and Heiroglyphs, GUI of the future! At least Dropbox hasn't gone full in on the Heiroglyph side of the fad, they still have text labels for buttons,
by jjoonathan 7y ago
Hamburgers and Heiroglyphs, GUI of the future!
At least Dropbox hasn't gone full in on the Heiroglyph side of the fad, they still have text labels for buttons, so you can understand what they do by looking at them and reading them.
- discreteevent 7y agoThe hieroglyphs are beyond me. It's literally making up your own alphabet not to mind language. Might be the ultimate sign of the over indulgence of developers/designers. Each gets their own perfect world which we must spend the time decrypting
- buboard 7y agoI wish at least they used the egyptian ones. I 'd love to learn their language
- jjoonathan 7y agoPress (Stork) to save!
- DonHopkins 7y agoThen you'd love OS/Iris, which died a long time ago but was later resurrected! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris_myth#Death_and_resurrection_of_Osiris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris_myth#Death_and_resurrec...
- nine_k 7y agoMaybe they try to save on i18n.
- tomjen3 7y agoThat is pretty easy - you don't need to support text in multiple languages, which is both difficult, a tad expensive, and slows down your velocity (I think the last on is the biggest issue).