Comment by rchaud

"Digital Design" has been fully subsumed by the needs of business for a long time now. When smartphones were new, an argument could be made that HCI was just as important as content in onboarding users to a new type of device with different levels of information density. There were developments like double-tap on to center a text block in the viewport, pinch to zoom, pull to refresh, swipe across cards to switch apps (WebOS came up with that one).

Now? It's completely flatlined, the changes are incremental and made only in the service of getting you to buy more, view more ads and hide fees until the last possible moment in the checkout funnel.