It’s also a principle that’s useful for resisting trend-based redesigns in SaaS products where users typically don’t have a choice of staying with the old desig

It’s also a principle that’s useful for resisting trend-based redesigns in SaaS products where users typically don’t have a choice of staying with the old design. Most web apps are the polar opposite of Raskin’s principles: highly modal screen-based UIs with low information density (because the designer loves airy padding and big fonts), constantly getting tinkered and unintentionally preventing habit formation.