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		zdragnar on Feb 10, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How illiterate people use their mobile phones (201... Do visual icons like the three lines for a menu help or hurt the usability of an application for people with dyslexia? I had assumed iconography was a boon for illiterate people- thinking primarily of symbols on shop signs or a striped barbers pole, for example.

justsomehnguy on Feb 11, 2022 [–]

> Do visual icons like the three lines

They hurt usability even for people perfectly capable of reading. Especially when Material fanboy fill everything with whitespace and bans black for the text.

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