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Every application has an irreducible amount of complexity; the only question is who has to deal with it: the user, the application developer or the platform developer.

Drawn from what Larry Tesler said

simplicity
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simplicity Less, but better: reduction as the way to make something good, and the argument about when it goes too far.

Which mental models should a designer think with?under our view: Complexity is conserved: someone has to carry it, and it should not be the user Why is it harder to simplify than to add?under our view: Less is not the goal: the aim is clarity, and cutting too far loses what mattered

What Larry Tesler actually said

  1. Larry Tesler by American computer scientist in human-computer interaction (1945 to 2020)
    Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is: Who will have to deal with it—the user, the application developer, or the platform developer?

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