mithats_maxims
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Mithat's Maxims
The maxims
Design
- Universality begets complexity.
- Optimize the right thing.
- The complexity of the design, process, or both scale exponentially with the number of added features.
Clients
- What, not how.
Usability
- The easier you make it for someone to do something, the more likely they are to do it.
- You are not the typical user.
- Users don’t read.
- If in doubt, do the default.
- Users develop models, except they don't. They develop habits.
Observed trends
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”.)
UX
- Minimum plausible affordances.
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