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 ===== The maxims ===== ===== The maxims =====
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 ==== Design ==== ==== Design ====
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   * Complexity scales exponentially with the number of added features.   * Complexity scales exponentially with the number of added features.
   * Optimize the right thing(s).   * Optimize the right thing(s).
-==== Usability ====+ 
 +==== UX ====
  
   * You are not the typical user.   * You are not the typical user.
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   * If in doubt, make a mistake.   * If in doubt, make a mistake.
   * Users develop models, except they don't. They develop habits.   * Users develop models, except they don't. They develop habits.
 +  * No one will solve a problem when they know a workaround.
  
 ==== For clients ==== ==== For clients ====
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 ==== Design ==== ==== 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 ==== ==== UX ====
  
   * Minimum plausible affordances.   * Minimum plausible affordances.
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 +===== 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.
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