Maybe the answer to yesterday's question about navigation inconsistency is hiding from us in the parent app. In Pinterest, navigation is ar…

Maybe the answer to yesterday's question about navigation inconsistency is hiding from us in the parent app. In Pinterest, navigation is arranged the same way: diving into the feed top to bottom, and switching between cards left to right. Even though there are tabs. Tabs hint at horizontal navigation. The team probably solved the task of swiping between cards in the pre-TikTok era. Back then full-screen top-to-bottom swipes were not in favor, and the cup of courage was in Tinder's hands. One and a half pensioners remember Paper, after all. Should product teams drop their backlog and reconsider approaches based on ideas about mental maps? Or should we forget ideas about intuitive interfaces and start relying on the practices of stable giants like Pinterest? The truth is somewhere nearby. It is scary and difficult to break habits and instill new patterns. Especially where the influence on business stability is not obvious. What can we do? We can design experience by standing on the shoulders of previous work, synthesizing new consistent solutions. The baggage is broader now than 10 years ago. The young mobile-app industry has not yet reached a fossilized state.