I've been teaching IT for 15 years and have always included a few slides about how the entirety of UI/UX is plainly kind of stupid (to the possible chagrin of o

I've been teaching IT for 15 years and have always included a few slides about how the entirety of UI/UX is plainly kind of stupid (to the possible chagrin of others) It can't decide whether it's science or fashion and kind of fails at both. Flat vs. poofy buttons is a fundamentally unserious debate, especially when there's no real barrier to letting the user choose (and not infantilizing them). The "solution" is understanding that what we're talking about here is fundamentally "communication" and most of these things can be solved through semantic ways of defining these things, e.g. what HTML tries to do.