Beyond fashion and aesthetics (which are totally valid, and what this article is mostly about), the past ten years of touch UI design have been a process of slo

Beyond fashion and aesthetics (which are totally valid, and what this article is mostly about), the past ten years of touch UI design have been a process of slowly eliminating the extremely obvious cues that were necessary for a population of user who had no idea how to relate to a touch screen. UI designers have been able to pack more functionality into UIs as they no longer have to beat people over the head with the idea that you can touch the controls.