UX Myths (2014)
I'll take serious issue with #12. There's undirected scatterbrained interfaces and that's bad sure.<p>But there's the other extreme. Like in Google mobile search, you can't do custom date ranges... they've removed one menu item just on mobile.<p>On SoundCloud mobile you can't delete your own uploads. On reddit mobile you can only do text posts. Or that new version of gas buddy or Google maps or in Google photos on mobile they removed the download option (but then put it back in).<p>What this process has morphed into is supporting a narrowing and increasingly specific user narrative.<p>Instead of seeking genericity, it's specificity. This is manifested as removing ports, keyboard keys, headphone jacks, save as menu options, disabling highlighting of text, or an ability to edit the spelling of a word without having to retype it, or an assumption that you want to tag a person and want a drop down menu of your friends instead of type something...<p>This is done supposedly in simplifying the product but it would be like making a paintbrush that only strokes vertically and only in primary colors...or a microwave with the number pad removed and only 6 auto cook buttons...<p>I mean what on earth