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If I may, I wrote something a few years ago about why flat design is detrimental to user experience. A lot of folks have told me that they've found it helpful in gaining some perspective.

https://medium.com/theories-of-form/frame-of-reference-eeb32...

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Thanks a lot, a very interesting read. I agree with you, affordance is a problem as different generations use different tools.

There is also a cultural aspect to it. Recently, I had to find icons to represent the concepts numerical minimum and maximum. This was hard, and not just because the space was limited. I settled on Chevrons (like v ^ ) while fully aware it was not standard.

It is just a way of setting a convention, and hoping your users will catch up to it.

That's interesting. I hadn't considering the cultural aspect in the context of icons. It's often a frame of reference when color is being decided, but icons—that's a good one. Thanks for expanding my brain here.

And thanks in return for this great article that helped me understand better the problem I had faced with the chevrons!

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