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I really do think functional UI design peaked somewhere in the early to mid 2000's. Right after that people started speaking of skeumorphism as a pejorative and
by zmmmmm 4y ago
I really do think functional UI design peaked somewhere in the early to mid 2000's. Right after that people started speaking of skeumorphism as a pejorative and that meant anything that looked 3d in any sense or resembled any kind of real world object had to be scrubbed out. If you could tell what something did, that by definition meant it was old fashioned! And the UI frameworks at the time almost made it hard to build something where there was a UI action without a corresponding menu item and shortcut key. You could bring up the menus like a site map of the application to see everything it could do (site maps - another relic of the 2000's!).
- leonidasv 4y agoI still see people confused about sandwich menus. They don't recognise those 3 stacked lines as a menu button. I think I only recognise it immediately because I was involved with Web development when that thing came along, but to this day I always end up having to help someone, even tech people, finding some menu when browsing the web together.
- toyg 4y agoYeah, "hamburger menus" are the modern equivalent of right-click: very useful once you understand it, but very difficult for the general population to get to grip with.
- layer8 4y agoHamburger menus are not really the equivalent of right-click context menus, because they aren't contextual to elements on the screen. Long press would be the equivalent of right click, but it isn't used very much.
- pcurve 4y agoAgreed. Once you give something a label, it takes on life of its own. I think the sound of the word "skeumorphism" probably didn't help either.