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If I understand your position correctly, you have offered a false dichotomy: designers must either remove a feature entirely or leave it in and clutter the UI.
by thangalin 14y ago
If I understand your position correctly, you have offered a false dichotomy: designers must either remove a feature entirely or leave it in and clutter the UI.
Here is a simple UI:
http://whitemagicsoftware.com/software/climate/ http://whitemagicsoftware.com/software/climate/
Here is the same software, but with a "cluttered" UI:
http://whitemagicsoftware.com/software/climate/guru.shtml http://whitemagicsoftware.com/software/climate/guru.shtml
It is entirely possible to make simple things simple while adding rich complexity for advanced users. It does, however, take more forethought and planning during development.
- claudius 14y agoI rather understood the original link to offer that dichotomy in the last sentence of the third paragraph: ‘Taking away features can be so much harder than adding features, but subtracting often creates the most value for your users.’. But, yes, your example is exactly what _should_ be done, but is often much harder to do than to ‘simply’ reduce everything to the simple UI.