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		glenndebacker on July 26, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Apple Goes Mushy Part I: OS X's Interface Dec... skeumorphism has notting to do with clear use of iconography. Even for a young kid a meaningless icon is still meaningless... I don't follow all the points in the article but I can't count the times that I overlooked photo's for example.

collyw on July 26, 2016 [–]

Personally I liked the old way when there was a crappy low resolution icon, with text underneath telling you what it was. In most interfaces since the text disappeared it takes me a while to work out what at least some of the icons are.

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