Most of this article is great; the delete button is terrible. The majority of your users are likely accessing your site on their mobile device. We crossed the

Most of this article is great; the delete button is terrible. The majority of your users are likely accessing your site on their mobile device. We crossed the 50% threshold for mobile views a long, long time ago. Desktop web browsing is -- maybe not surprisingly -- becoming a generational gap. For people who grew up entertained by their parents phones and tablets, it's rare for them to casually browse on their laptop (if they even have one). The entire demonstration falls flat on mobile. There are no hover states on mobile. The feedback animations don't work on mobile. Holding the button down causes weird text highlighting issues. Even just the button itself is too small on a phone. It's a real demonstration of "let me just graft on the mobile layout later" after going through the desktop song and dance, which is missing a large chunk of your userbase. The other critique I would have is around "novel" UX on web. If you're making someone learn a new way to hold down a delete button, that's a cognitive load on your user that in reality only serves to drive your users away from your product. How many of us flubbed the hold-to-delete interaction the first time, because we expected a button on a webpage to behave like a button on a webpage? I'd venture almost 100% of us. Some of us picked up on the slider that indicated that we had to keep holding it down to make the button work, but a lot of us probably didn't, and certainly a good chunk of your users will abandon their task because they can't figure out that interaction. The author is talking about the gaming paradigm; this is where you get those random, wacky "tap twice to double jump" weird modal dialogs in games, because the complexity is so high and a user literally has to learn how to control their character. Doing this on the web is a guaranteed ticket to a high abandonment rate. Definitely add "juice" to your pages, but don't do it at the price of _predictability_. Let your website behave like a website. Your users will thank you.