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By Bracken King |
September 2nd, 2010
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Everyone has had to deal with overly simplistic or overly complex help sections or documentation from time to time (and far to many times after that). We ran across a pretty great help section recently and thought it was worth thinking about what made it so successful.
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By Tyler King |
July 23rd, 2010
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Simplicity is one of the most common themes on this blog. We like simple software, and we haven't been afraid to write about it in the past. Until recently, I thought I had a pretty good idea of what simplicity was, and why software designers should strive for it, but I've had an awakening.
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By Tyler King |
July 1st, 2010
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One of the main challenges for software designers is finding the balance between power and simplicity. In this post I talk about a common shortcut taken by many designers, and why you should avoid it.
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If you're a regular reader, you know that I love simple software. Most of the time when people hear the word "simple", they assume a lack of sophistication and power, but that doesn't have to be the case. I'm not going to be able to tackle this entire issue in one blog post, but I want t...
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When Bracken and I decided to start Less Annoying Software, I left my full-time job so that I could dedicate most of my time to building our customer manager, but I still do some consulting work for my old company. For the past two weeks I've been spending some time redesigning their signup pr...
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Off the top of your head, can you think of a restaurant that has seasoned fries? I bet you can. Pretty much everyone thinks seasoned fries are way better than normal ones. I can think of a couple of different restaurants that have pretty strong local reputations based almost entirely off their se...
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Here's a fairly spot on comic on the relative importance of elegance in academics vs. business, courtesy of xkcd.com. I leave it up to the reader to decide which viewpoint is less twisted. Figured it was worth posting given my earlier post on the subject.
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During my graduate career, I've read and analyzed a ton of research papers. Of all the compliments that one could give, I think the highest praise is to say that a method, experimental design, or proof is elegant. The papers that bring huge resources to bear to tackle crucially important problems ...
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Recently I've found myself reading a lot of poorly written online content. I don't mean that there were typos or that the writer wasn't using big fancy words. After all, there will probably be typos and a noticeable lack of big words in this blog post. What I mean when I say "poorly written" is t...
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