Medium has been an inspiration for many designers lately. It’s a well thought and beautifully executed site. Medium’s use of Progressive disclosure (an interaction design technique) amongst many other design principle stuns me! But sometimes overusing a design principle may have its own setbacks. I have come across this one peculiar problem on Medium, which I would like to address here.

On May 16th, Sketch wrote a blog introducing its next version. As always, once I read the blog, I shot over to the Response section because previously I had faced some nasty bugs due to the updates! Once I opened the responses section I realized my intuition was right. I wanted to investigate more and kept reading through the responses. One such response caught my attention. A user had mentioned something which I use regularly.

I was disheartened to read the response but still hoped it wasn’t true. I saw there was a response to this response.

I hoped it would say that the feature was still there and the user might have missed it out. I clicked on it to read more. This is where it led me.