I saw the XML icons on websites for years before paying attention to what they meant (RSS feed) and what you could do with it (feedreaders, etc.) We as a profe

I saw the XML icons on websites for years before paying attention to what they meant (RSS feed) and what you could do with it (feedreaders, etc.) We as a profession suck. It's not a criticism, just a statement of fact. We're in the stone ages. The interfaces my fellow programmers create are hard to discover, hard to understand, hard to use. And then I try to create interfaces and end up perpetrating the same crimes in my turn.