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Jeff Fortin T. (nekohayo@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 09:50:57 JST Jeff Fortin T.
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@thomholwerda The accurate take is rather:
experienced user interaction designers understand that software is a LOT more robust and maintainable when you reduce the exponential support matrix and bugs vector that superfluous options represent.
This video summarizes the core struggle in very concrete statistical terms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRvmS0mABC0
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1. Jussi Pakkanen's “Let’s play a game of not adding options” GUADEC 2023 UX & software quality talk
  
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  This is a short talk I wanted to archive and share for convenience and posterity, because it is fundamental to understanding GNOME's design minimalism that a...
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  Thom, HP-UX™ evangelist (thomholwerda@exquisite.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 09:51:03 JST Thom, HP-UX™ evangelist
  
  Hot take: UI developers' disdain for options and complexity is part of the larger anti-intellectual and anti-science wave sweeping the world.
  
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  Daimar Stein :tux: :comunista: repeated this.

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