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Monday, December 08, 2003

Discussing UI complexities
I've been ranting against complex UIs for a long time (though I tend to focus more on usability aspects like "discoverability" where a feature is useless if you don't know it exists and can't find out about it easily) and it's nice to see someone else starting to think about this stuff as well. The iPod is successful for a few reasons, but one of them is the simplicity of its UI, which blows away virtually everything else on the market. Sadly, as they add ever more functionality to the iPod, we're starting to replace that ease of use with an ever-increasingly complex experience. But it's still a good example of UI done right. Now if Apple could just take that much care with its desktop OS, maybe it would have a true contender to Windows on its hand. God knows Linux will never get there.

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