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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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