> Well your response implies the reason is stubbornness I don't think so. I think he was trying to imply that there were objective reasons why labels are a goo

> Well your response implies the reason is stubbornness I don't think so. I think he was trying to imply that there were objective reasons why labels are a good UI feature and that getting rid of them is unwise, even if it IS fashionable lately. That is true of a lot of things in UI design. UI design is human enough that it IS affected by things such as fashions. But sometimes people forget that there are real, meaningful differences in usability, and often the "traditional" way of doing things is traditional for a good reason. My own pet peeve in this regard? Menus. Microsoft office has made "ribbon" style interfaces quite popular instead of using menus. But menus had some important features: you could search through them exhaustively (at least the menus that aren't context-sensitive), and you can use the menus to incrementally learn the keyboard shortcuts for the features you use most often. Ribbons look nice, but they can't teach you to be faster.