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While there is often a trade-off between internal and external complexity, the article goes too far. For instance, having a zillion inter-related modes creates
by chmod600 6y ago
While there is often a trade-off between internal and external complexity, the article goes too far.
For instance, having a zillion inter-related modes creates internal and external complexity without improving functionality at all. Using orthogonal controls helps a lot.
- t0350 6y agoGuys who made things that have a zillion inter-related modes actually spent few effort to convert the "model" to a truly conceptual model which should be much simpler or as you said, orthogonal. And I believe that this is where the complexity lied in.