A photo isn’t an interactive interface so there’s entirely different perception tasks involved in parsing it. We like a lot of things in photos that are horribl

A photo isn’t an interactive interface so there’s entirely different perception tasks involved in parsing it. We like a lot of things in photos that are horrible for UI design — and vice versa. But this also gets into another gray area where looking at a design for a UI != using said design to perform important tasks. Hence why prototyping and user tests often run counter to “pretty” interfaces.