Attractive design is like a ... choose words carefully here ... love affair. Exciting at first, but after the first few hundred interactions, it comes down to

Attractive design is like a ... choose words carefully here ... love affair. Exciting at first, but after the first few hundred interactions, it comes down to practicality, not how cool or pretty it looks. Thus taking a skeuomorphic image of a photo gallery and one of a calendar, and abstracting both, is not a bad thing. But, for example, abstracting them to have the exact same visual cues, as the Android 11 icons for "Gallery Go" and "Calendar" have, causing me to tap the wrong one even after hundreds of uses, is bad. But no cure for a love affair that has gotten boring than... a new love affair, right? Or is there? A boring, but stable marriage. Like the MATE Desktop on Linux, which has stuck to the tried-and-true taskbar idiom even as the OS that pioneered that has gone off in other directions. Or an unskinned web page that still shows links in underlined blue.