Every now and then I see a picture of a UI circa 2000, and I mostly miss that era. Controls were organized. Everything clickable looked clickable. There were cl

Every now and then I see a picture of a UI circa 2000, and I mostly miss that era. Controls were organized. Everything clickable looked clickable. There were clear conventions. Controls did not obscure content. Sure, it wasn’t pretty the way modern UIs are pretty, but users don’t need pretty.