Limit the number of details — Lightspark Design ↗

A un certo punto un prodotto (un qualsiasi prodotto) viene sepolto dall'aggiunta di una marea di funzioni. Sembra inevitabile. (Un articolo di Geoff Teehan nel blog del team di design di Lightspark).

The first version of a product does one thing and usually does it pretty well. Then people use it, which is unfortunately where the trouble starts.

People want things. Teams get bigger. Customers ask for features. Competitors ship things. There are quarterly goals. Someone discovers a new market segment. Someone else has a partnership. Eventually someone says AI.

Most of these requests make sense on their own, which is exactly the problem. Nobody wakes up and says, “Let’s make this product substantially worse over the next five years.” It happens one perfectly reasonable decision at a time.