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[Ken Ritchie]

Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 16:27 -0400, Ivan Krsti? wrote:
>   
>> Christopher Blizzard wrote:
>>     
>>> http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/02/its_the_stupid.html
>>>       
>> This has nothing to do with low-level bits.
>>     
>
> No, it has a lot to do with them.  The user experience filters down to,
> and influences, _everything_.  If it doesn't, then we've got a huge
> problem.
>
> Dan
>   

"Effective designs should empower users and create a greater sense of 
control, mastery, predictability, and clarity." --Ben Shneiderman. 

Ben is one of the world's long-standing gurus of user experience and 
human-computer interaction. The quote comes from "Human Values and the 
Future of Technology: A Declaration of Empowerment" (his Keynote address 
for ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computers and the Quality of Life - Sept 
1990).
Kathy &co at Headrush are right on target with their "I Rule!" 
characterization of the User Experience.  The low-level bits are how we 
get there.

All those low-level bits add up -- Just enough to get it done right -- 
no more, and no less!  More would be bloated, and less would be broken 
or "simplistic" (as opposed to "simple" and sufficient.)

The real meaning of KISS: Keep It Simple & Sufficient (paraphrasing 
Einstein's "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not 
simpler.")

That's smart, not stupid.   ;-)

cheers,
--ken

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