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--- mithats_maxims [2018/10/01 00:12] – [UX] mithat
+++ mithats_maxims [2021/11/18 21:23] (current) – [Design] mithat
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   * Universality begets complexity.
-  * Optimize the right thing.
+  * Complexity scales exponentially with the number of added features.
+  * Optimize the right thing(s).
-==== Clients ====
+==== UX ====
-  * What, not how.
-==== Usability ====
-  * The easier you make it for someone to do something, the more they will do it.
   * 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 typical cases cumbersome. (See "Universality begets complexity," and "Optimize the right thing".)
+  * 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.