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Given a complicated premise, the best thing a designer can do is stick to a conventional design and let the features surprise and delight.

Drawn from what Sebastiaan de With said

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design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

Conventions (Jakob's law)

What makes a design good?under our view: Good design disappears: it is obvious to use, explains itself, and is never noticed Which mental models should a designer think with?under our view: Conventions win over novelty, because people bring what they learned everywhere else

What Sebastiaan de With actually said

  1. Sebastiaan de With Designer and co-founder of Lux, makers of Halide
    But given the already complicated premise of long exposure photography, the best possible thing we could do — and as a designer this is hard to admit — was to stick to a fairly conventional design and let the actual features surprise and delight.

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