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Simplicity is Not Overrated, Just Misunderstood

This article is a response to Don Norman's column article from Interactions Magazine. The article disproves Norman's point that simplicity is highly overrated and that users only buy products based on complexity and features, and provides a more accurate and substantial point of view.

read the article » Simplicity is Not Overrated, Just Misunderstood

Simplicity (misinformation)

This conversation has one foot in design, another in engineering and yet a third in marketing.

Simplicity is about the usage of the product. It effects the user. Complexity as present here, the 'amount' of features is about the purchaser. These may or may not be the same person, but they definitely have different perspectives and the criteria for purchase and usage are different.

These are very different contexts. The reason that users buy a particular product is for the benefits (pardon my marketing hat).

Simplicity is Not Understood

note: this is a draft sour/sober personal opinion. it's not directed to
anyone in particular, really. don't take it too seriously if you don't want.
It doesn't have to do with IxD (wtf is IxD? really? is it
ProductDesign+HCI+Psychology+ScienceOfMind? who cares, IxD is a brand to
have more cash)... w/e

I "hate" to do this, talk in first person about this issues. but enough is
enough...

Complexity verus simplicity ( WAS: Motorola Motofone User Experience)

I wrote:
> ...I'd love to be able to find a
> cell phone that isn't burdened down (and made too complex) by hosts of

> features I neither want nor need nor use.

Josh Viney replied:
>...why build a phone that has to be a pure phone and can never be more
> than that? Why not build a phone that starts off as a simple phone,
but
> can grow with users as they demand more functionality?...

I love that idea. One thing I've always hated about software is the
unending feature creep.