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Mithat's Maxims

The maxims

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.

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.

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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