Pointing UI/UX designers to Nintendo's 1999 Human Interface Guidelines
keyanzhang · x · 2026-10-27
Responding to a real screenshot of a huge in-your-face hand popping up to point at an app's promote button ("so obstructive, yet so effective"), the author points UI/UX designers to the 1999 Nintendo Human Interface Guidelines—riffing on Super Smash Bros.' Master Hand meme to mock today's increasingly obstructive promotional UI.
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