alt Hacker NewsI wish software apps had "tape-out rules" the way that computer chips do. Basically, when you design a computer chip, a program reviews the design and compares it against something like 300 pages of rules with stuff like "wires of X metal and Y metal can't be within Z distance of each other".
We could make something similar for UX. Just a bunch of design pattern constraints that throw flags if you try to ship something with well established UX warts.
There’s effectively no universal list of UX warts people agree with.
The Flat UX fad was objectively terrible on just about every metric I was taught, but people were actively pushing for such designs.