ewaneneollav:

“Why the fuck the little scroll bar has these little horizontal lines?!”
OK, i will tell you … this is to mimic little raised ridges
the ridges would provide friction with a finger, if it was a physical slider …
this intuitively tells you that the strange object is to be slid like a slider …
this is known as … “Skeuomorphic design”!
Thanks for listening. have a safe drive home everyone
[turns off the projector & leaves out the back door]
[gets in my car & puts the key in the ignition]
[turns key & my car explodes due to a car bomb, i die]

is this the same reason the save icon is a floppy disk or we still use “roll down the window” despite most car windows being automatic?