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====== Mithat's Maxims ======

===== The maxims =====

==== Design ====

  * Universality begets complexity.
  * Complexity scales exponentially with the number of added features.
  * Optimize the right thing(s).

==== UX ====

  * You are not the typical user.
  * The easier you make it for someone to do something, the more likely they are to do it.
  * Users don’t read.
  * If in doubt, do the default.
  * If in doubt, make a mistake.
  * Users develop models, except they don't. They develop habits.
  * No one will solve a problem when they know a workaround.

==== For clients ====

  * What, not how.

===== Observed trends =====

Not actually maxims, but rather some trends that can get you into trouble.

==== Design ====

  * Make corner cases no more difficult than typical cases, even if it makes the typical cases cumbersome. (See "Universality begets complexity," and "Optimize the right thing(s)".) 

==== UX ====

  * Minimum plausible affordances.

===== Mithat's Laws of Opinion =====
  * For every opinion, there is an equal and opposite opinion.
  * An opinion in motion will remain unchanged even when acted on by an external force.
  * The acceleration of an opinion depends on the outrageousness of the opinion times the number of times the opinion is seen.