Bring Back Idiomatic Design
John Loeber wants idiomatic design back, and he's right - but the loss of idiom wasn't laziness, it was physics. IBM's Common User Access standard worked because the OS enforced it and the hardware was fixed; move to the browser, then mobile, then AR, and the contract doesn't bend, it voids. We're not in a period of design failure; we're in the same chaotic pre-standardization phase that preceded CUA in the first place. The question isn't how to restore what we had - it's how to recognize the improvised patterns that are already winning, and hold the line when we find them.
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