I love this anecdote: Likewise, when Jobs was shown a cluttered set of proposed navigation screens for iDVD, which allowed users to burn video onto a dis

I love this anecdote: Likewise, when Jobs was shown a cluttered set of proposed navigation screens for iDVD, which allowed users to burn video onto a disk, he jumped up and drew a simple rectangle on a whiteboard. “Here’s the new application,” he said. “It’s got one window. You drag your video into the window. Then you click the button that says ‘Burn.’ That’s it. That’s what we’re going to make.” It strongly reminds me of Michael Wolfe's answer to why dropbox succeeded [1], which comes down to: * there would be a folder * you'd put your stuff in it * it would sync In both cases, huge amounts of complexity, and hence lots of work, where hidden by the designers and developers to enable people to accomplish what they wanted with no unnecessary work. [1] http://www.quora.com/Why-is-Dropbox-more-popular-than-other-programs-with-similar-functionality/answer/Michael-Wolfe http://www.quora.com/Why-is-Dropbox-more-popular-than-other-...