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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: August 14, 2003 The myth of discoverability -- (UIWEB) "In other words, eliminating stupid, unnecessary or infrequent choices from the list of decisions people need to make, is almost always a good thing. They don’t care about what they don’t need to care about."
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Couldn't agree more! It's a frequent flaw in the developer mindset to assume that, just because THEY like the idea of more features and more "control," that users want the same thing. They don't. Every feature is another level of complication, another choice you're forcing the user to make instead of letting them focus on their task. In the ideal development process, every proposed feature would be excluded by default until and unless someone could raise a powerful, data-driven argument for including it. And as long as I'm dreaming, I'd like a pony. Posted by: Brian Curtis on August 15, 2003 08:00 AM
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