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I'm interested in any good examples of hidden design you can think of.
I'm assuming you listen to the podcast 99% invisible?
I don't actually, I never really got into podcasts for some reason, exception is I do end up watching wvfrm but nothing else.
As for good examples of invisible design, there is nothing that I can think off the top of my head, I guess it's just as invisible to me. Jokes aside, the only example coming to my head rn is not the best example, it's of the slit in old macbooks for activity indication light (IIRC). It was so thin that it was literally invisible to the naked eye unless the light was shining, so it's kind of playing up to the concept itself, in turn making it noticeable and not actually following the principle I mentioned.
After racking my brain quite a bit I did come up with an example: pinch to zoom, it's very high level as an example but you would realise it's intuitiveness if you have ever seen someone try to apply it to the real world. Invisible design is an issue because of this, because it's supposed to get out of the way and so you just don't notice in day to day life, it only becomes noticeable when it suddenly is not there.