Why do USB flash drives never provide for labels?

Floppy disks had stick-on labels. Optical discs can be written on with a Sharpie, or printed with special ink-jet printers, or round stick-on labels applied.
USB sticks have zero affordances for labeling. They are often bu…
Why do USB flash drives never provide for labels?

Floppy disks had stick-on labels. Optical discs can be written on with a Sharpie, or printed with special ink-jet printers, or round stick-on labels applied.
USB sticks have zero affordances for labeling. They are often bu…
Google Design Website- What are these Card like components?

On https://design.google.com/ it looks like they are using titles instead of cards, because the edges are square. But they function as cards. Can anyone tell me what they are? Are they whitespaces? Speaking strictly on the gu…
Is "user-select: none" bad UX?

I was having a discussion today with a colleague. I showed her “user-select: none” – a CSS property that stops a user from selecting text.
To me, this property allowed a more app-like experience to be created on a page – ens…
Why is Windows registry so unfriendly?

Why does the Windows registry seem so opaque? I thought a good practice in CS was to give explicit names to variables and constants, but the registry has mysterious names and values.
For example, I tried to change the way w…