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Joe Critchley
Personal blog · joecritchley.svbtle.comdesignweb
Joe Critchley's personal blog at joecritchley.svbtle.com covers design and web. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Could we kill the icon?”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post, which argues for dropping icons from user interfaces in favour of contextually aware, transparent interfaces. One commenter quotes it in a proposal to remove icons.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Joe Critchley | Interface developer
Most-linked posts?
- Could we kill the icon?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-10-04
What Hacker News says?
How about no icons? Could we kill the icon? "Imagine letting go of the Xerox-inspired GUIs altogether. Imagine a native digital medium, instead of holding onto physical entities. It’s not going to be easy; but it will be the future of the UI. Contextually aware, transparent user interfaces is what we should strive for." http://joecritchley.svbtle.com/kill-the-icon
Comment linking /kill-the-icon
on “Iconic: Advanced icons for the modern web”Submitted Could we kill the icon? as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to create a natural baseline in CSS as a story · 3 points
HN discussion