How the Web Became Unreadable
Designers are ruining software in general. iTunes, the iOS music app, and Google Maps are just a few pieces of software that started out relatively usable (if not exactly stable in the case of iTunes), and have been iterated and stylized to the point where I routinely get enraged by them.<p>At least Google Maps has walked back that terrible accordion thing that literally drove me crazy.<p>I basically think design is like a cancer on the web anymore. You know what works? Craiglist, that&#x27;s what works. Reddit works. Hacker News works. The old, pre-design-goober Google Apps interface worked.<p>I seriously want to punch a hipster every time I have to use an app that used to work and has now been designed to death.