I'd still say that technical limitations can come into the UX sphere. You have to work with / around such restrictions when deciding what designs to go with.
But I don't really like those 'why does something do something the way it does'. quetsions
@JonW remember the Blog? Check the UX mod chat. Was wondering if we could track down the authors of the 4 ready/almost ready to go articles and see how else is around with interest
@JonW "Show frozen/deleted rooms" is a mod button in the bottom right.
Only like, 25% or less of the network actually have live mod rooms. The rest have dead rooms that are random between people who actually effort to unfreeze/undelete them, and rooms that the mods just use the whole "I can talk in frozen/deleted rooms" privilege.
I was watching a video of little kids trying to figure out how to use a rotary phone, and it was not immediately clear to any of them how the rotary mechanism was supposed to work. That got me thinking: why was the rotary mechanism used in phones at all? It seems like individual buttons would be ...