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I think the HN UI is already simple enough as it is :) My point is that clients who pay money often want complex UI elements.

• DanielBMarkham 16y ago
  Do they really? Or do programmers like complex UI elements and then have trained clients that busier screens are somehow more valuable? The simplest design is not pencil and paper. It's a neural interface that presents us with only the important information and allows us to think of the answer. The computer then executes it. The next simplest would be a question with a physical button to push for yes/no. The problem (I think) is that each layer of the OSI stack, each piece of the O/S, each tool vendor, each website out to make a buck -- they're all demanding more and more attention to things that are not important, but distracting. If a neural interface is ever to work, we're going to have to start setting some standards for what's appropriate stimulus and what isn't. Hence the discussion on the extremes of design simplicity
  • lhorie 16y ago
    >> Do they really? Or do programmers like complex UI elements and then have trained clients that busier screens are somehow more valuable? Hmm, have you ever dealt with clients? :) Jokes aside, it might be a combination of both (on a macro scale anyways). Re: neural interface - erm, if we're gonna talk about hand-wavy vaporware, here's mine: singularity.