Not much. More people are lexically adept - that is, literate - than ever before by historical standards and yet look at how bad the media is. On an interface level, design is all about presenting information and options to the user in a way that's easy to navigate. But the fundamentals of that are relatively simple - look at newspaper and magazine advertising from today, 30-40 years ago, and from the 19th century. The artwork and proportional ratios of different elements have changed considerably, but it's the same basic mechanism of hook, development, call to action.
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Not much. More people are lexically adept - that is, literate - than ever before by historical standards and yet look at how bad the media is. On an interface level, design is all about presenting information and options to the user in a way that's easy to navigate. But the fundamentals of that are relatively simple - look at newspaper and magazine advertising from today, 30-40 years ago, and from the 19th century. The artwork and proportional ratios of different elements have changed considerably, but it's the same basic mechanism of hook, development, call to action.