Comment by constantcrying

There used to be a school of design which understood that design first and foremost is pragmatic and that it needs to be understood as a form of communication. Very few people care about design as such, they care about the functionality.

For decades I have seen a bizarre iteration over various "aesthetics" of interface design, each successive step having been hailed as a new, better way to interact with our devices. Consistently each step has made interacting with devices more tedious.

Design isn't about how colorful your icons are or how many dimensions they have. I think it is very clear that the quality of the work designers do has drastically declined, especially the focus of aesthetic experience over usability has been an absolute disaster.