Good design for Humans
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Good design for Humans
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#2> Good Design is simple.
> A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.
I think this has principle been taken way too far, and it certainly shouldn't be regarded as a commandment. I, the user, am not always going to be a beginner in an emergency, so why restrict me like that forever? Good design shouldn't be unnecessarily complex, but sometimes you need a complex good design to have a powerful good design.
This podcast has a good discussion of this: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/of-mice-and-men/
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#3This article is extremely vague.
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#4If anyone wants a nice (8 min) video to watch — in the same vein — this one[0] is a great intro by Dieter Rams and the man he influenced at Apple: Jony Ive.
[0] - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2oa1m1
(Used to be on YT but I can't find it anymore)
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#5This article is extremely vague.
good design is smokebomb
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#6Im eager to read about good design for extraterrestrials
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#7About that factorial code in Clojure, I wish in reality one could write beautiful recursive code like that without blowing the stack for large inputs, one of my main grips with Clojure.
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#8> Good Design is simple. > A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds. I think this has principle been taken way too far, and it certainly shouldn't be regarded as a commandment. I, the user, am not always going to be a beginner in an emergency , so why restrict me like that forever? Good design shouldn't be unnecessarily complex, but sometimes you need a…
Yeah, this is a major misconception. Designers often forget how quickly people can get used to complex things, if they're using them day-in, day-out. Simple is bad design if it gets in the way of virtuosity.
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#9How is "good design is timeless" helpful advice?
Jones, make me something timeless, or your ass is fired
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#10> Good Design is simple. > A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds. I think this has principle been taken way too far, and it certainly shouldn't be regarded as a commandment. I, the user, am not always going to be a beginner in an emergency , so why restrict me like that forever? Good design shouldn't be unnecessarily complex, but sometimes you need a…
In my personal experience what I discovered is that designing a good complex system always starts by reducing it to its minimal terms first and only then you can re-expose the complexity. This is less true when you are designing from scratch and way more true when you have something that has (dis)organically grown.
Edit: typos.