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🔥 New blog post! 🔥

I started writing a toot about @github’s new comment UI and it somehow turned into a whole 1.7k word article on simplicity, usability, their evolution, and the effects of poor UIs. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Minimalist Affordances: Making the right tradeoffs
lea.verou.me/blog/2023/minimal

lea.verou.meMinimalist Affordances: Making the right tradeoffs • Lea Verou
Benjamin

@leaverou @github I really thought the page was broken or incompletely loaded until I saw it enough times to try typing in it. It's emotionally uncomfortable to type in, fighting how it looks vs. what I know it is.