Ah, but brutalism is this week&#x27;s buzzword so all you have to do is not check the actual meaning of the word, make up your definition and start blogging. Remember when skeuomorphism was the buzzword and everybody got that wrong too?<p>I&#x27;ve said this before, but IxD and UX are problem areas in IT when too many people are self-taught. Reading a couple of blogs about the subject isn&#x27;t enough. Self-taught programmers will see when something works or fails because their code will run or not. IxD and UX have often difficult to define specs and hard to measure results. No formal education in the subject is really easy to spot in people who blog and don&#x27;t have it. Source: I have a degree in IxD.<p>Far too much of what pops up on the net on this subject is just wrong; but HN users are right in this thread, HN is a good example of a clean and easy to use GUI. Is there room for improvement? Probably. Are those improvements critical to the site? Probably not.