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The Law of Conservation of Complexity

Larry Tesler · by 9 Aug 2011

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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.

    Mental modelConservation of complexity

    Their wordsEvery 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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