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I'm in the "text or GTFO" team, and the opposite is an especially annoying trend in desktop webapps. My bank rewrote their UI to icons-only a while ago and it's

I'm in the "text or GTFO" team, and the opposite is an especially annoying trend in desktop webapps. My bank rewrote their UI to icons-only a while ago and it's complete shitshow. I randomly click around to go to the screen I want because icons are non-descriptive at all. Having said that, text has an annoying feature of needing to be localized, and localization of button texts is tricky because you want a very short string, in order to not overflow, because you have very small screen estate on mobile. (It doesn't also help that some native built-in components have APIs that show the icons only, without text)

ashneo76 6y ago
This. It is confusin for me as someone who grew up with internet. We have a huge screen, use it. Geez. Forget about my parents and older relatives trying to figure out how to hangup. I miss the green and red buttons on Nokias.. There is no creativity any more. Everybody is too busy following apple
- brokenmachine 6y ago
  I don't want creativity, I want functionality. I want ugly buttons with clear text on them. What I definitely don't want is four almost identical icons with nothing to tell me what any of them do, or swipe gestures that are impossible to discover, or (the worst) swipe gestures that expose icons. And then, the absolute worst of all, the useless "upgrade" that offers zero additional functionality, but changes the location or design of all the icons of an app that you've already learned.