[gitgud]

Good UX abstractions out perform bad ones, which means they endure, are copied, and eventually become the implied standard UX… some examples of this are; the hamburger menu, tiny icons and auto-scroll for streaming text

[JumpCrisscross]

> Good UX abstractions out perform bad ones

And then get get every precision input being represented by a slider versus text box.

[toymin]

Hamburger menu is not a good UX abstraction, that's why the mass usage stage of it was pretty short lived and most people are leaving it for more obvious patterns, like tab bars

[markdown]

Doesn't necessarily have to be good. Can also propagate and become "standardised" if it's the easiest, most convenient, most well documented way. Eg. Twitter Bootstrap.

[r0b05]

Why are tiny icons good abstractions?

[gitgud]

I assume they signal what menu item does what, to make it less confusing on different screen sizes.

I.e. Large displays get “icon + label”, whereas small displays just get “icon”

[r0b05]

I believe it has to do with the size of the icons rather than placing the icon with a label. The AI trend is towards smaller icons. That being said, the more I look at the pic in the article, the more pleasing the smaller icons look to me. Perhaps we just didn't know any better.

[summermusic]

I really hope streamed text doesn’t outperform other design patterns in places where it doesn’t make sense.

[IsTom]

I might be an old man yelling at cloud, but for things coming after win98 era this feels demonstrably false in many cases.