this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2023
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This. The core principle of intuitive UI is reusing ui elements that are familiar. That's the reason every elevator has buttons, and that's why you can intuitively operate every elevator you encounter.
The problem is that not everyone is familiar with the same things. Many people of older generations (those that have stopped keeping up with technology) are used to buttons, that's why a blue text doesn't immediately mean clickable to them.
On the other hand there's no right click on phones so younger generations that are familiar with phone UIs may not immediately come to the conclusion that there's more options when pressing the other mouse button on a desktop computer.