> The point of the article isn’t to dictate what design elements people use, it’s to point out more user friendly ways of achieving those designs. If your goal

> The point of the article isn’t to dictate what design elements people use, it’s to point out more user friendly ways of achieving those designs. If your goal is user friendliness, it would behoove you to use a design which is user friendly. Using a design which is user unfriendly and asking "how can I make this unfriendly design seem friendly" seems to be approaching the problem from the wrong direction: the design choice itself is the biggest contributor to user friendliness. Either you care more about yourself and your design choices than user friendliness, or vice versa, and both are totally valid options, but don't pick the former and claim the latter.