"Less features make my job easier, so please have less features" - UX designers reluctant to solve the problem they were hired to solve Well, duh. Developers c

"Less features make my job easier, so please have less features" - UX designers reluctant to solve the problem they were hired to solve Well, duh. Developers can relate, short programs are exponentially easier to write well than large ones. That's the challenge. > Think about the most successful products you know. The ones you use everyday, as a customer. Twitter, Lyft, Venmo, Slack. I wouldn't think of these products and I don't use them every day. I would think of very complex applications with an incredible amount of features that I'll mostly never use. However, this large surface area overlaps with what I need. There is no "more focused" app that does the job. I would also think of the top software companies - Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, IBM. None of these companies are known for their "simple and focused" applications. Quite the contrary. Sure, if you have a little app that's just a frontend for one thing, keep the focus. Otherwise, keep in mind that "it doesn't do the one thing we need" is generally a deal-breaker, whereas "it does one-hundred things we don't need" is not. Everyone's needs are slightly different and critical mass is important.