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===== The maxims ===== | ===== The maxims ===== | ||
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==== Design ==== | ==== Design ==== | ||
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* Universality begets complexity. | * Universality begets complexity. | ||
* Complexity scales exponentially with the number of added features. | * Complexity scales exponentially with the number of added features. | ||
- | * Optimize the right thing. | + | * Optimize the right thing(s). |
- | ==== Usability | + | |
+ | ==== UX ==== | ||
- | * The easier you make it for someone to do something, the more likely they are to do it. | ||
* You are not the typical user. | * You are not the typical user. | ||
+ | * The easier you make it for someone to do something, the more likely they are to do it. | ||
* Users don’t read. | * Users don’t read. | ||
* If in doubt, do the default. | * If in doubt, do the default. | ||
* If in doubt, make a mistake. | * If in doubt, make a mistake. | ||
* Users develop models, except they don't. They develop habits. | * Users develop models, except they don't. They develop habits. | ||
+ | * No one will solve a problem when they know a workaround. | ||
==== For clients ==== | ==== For clients ==== | ||
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==== Design ==== | ==== Design ==== | ||
- | * Make corner cases no more difficult than typical cases, even if it makes typical cases cumbersome. (See " | + | * Make corner cases no more difficult than typical cases, even if it makes the typical cases cumbersome. (See " |
==== UX ==== | ==== UX ==== | ||
* Minimum plausible affordances. | * Minimum plausible affordances. | ||
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+ | ===== Mithat' | ||
+ | * For every opinion, there is an equal and opposite opinion. | ||
+ | * An opinion in motion will remain unchanged even when acted on by an external force. | ||
+ | * The acceleration of an opinion depends on the outrageousness of the opinion times the number of times the opinion is seen. |
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