Re: "Design Rules"

Henrik Olsen article:

Balancing visual and structural complexity in interaction design
How visual simplicity can harm usability
<http://www.guuui.com/issues/04_03.asp>

"Usability is based on principles such as "Less is more" and "Keep it
simple, stupid". But there is more to simplicity than meets the eye.
By reducing visual complexity at the cost of structural simplicity,
you will give your users a hard time understanding and navigating the
content of a web site."

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 22:11:49 -0700 (PDT), Michael James Pinto
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> --- [email protected] wrote:
> > I would love to hear your "rules" - short and sweet - to add to our list and will happily post
> > the list here once it is compiled.
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> There are only two rules that you need to know about design:
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> 1. Less is more.
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> 2.
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