this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2026
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Poor designs resulting from incompetence. This covers unintentional artifacts. (Intentionally malicious/anomalious designs belong in c/assholedesign)
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Adding icons, even if they are not perfect? Hell yeah! I find it difficult scanning through text, it all seems the same. Even just crappy icons will improve my orientation because every menu becomes a recognizable map. Now if we added colors, that would make it perfect...
the problem is that when you have too many icons they become noise, having icons for common tasks quickly draws your attention to those tasks and makes it easier to find them