Design principle - Fewer choices mean fewer worries

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People love having choices, because having choices means having freedom. Well, we don't think this is necessarily a good thing when it comes to usability.

We believe that when someone wants to do something on their computer, they want to spend their time doing it, not deciding how to do it.

For instance, Microsoft Windows provides you with at least three different ways to launch applications and services on your computer: desktop icons, a quick-launch bar, and a Start Menu. Each one of these mechanisms is useful in one or two situations but horrible in others, and each has completely different instructions for operation. Microsoft even gives you a wealth of choices to configure them the way you want, which makes the situation that much more complex.

When we can, we try to avoid burdening our users with choices like this. We'd rather just take the time to make one simple mechanism that the user can use for all their purposes. The less burdened a user's mind is with irrelevant decisions, the more clear their mind is to accomplish what they need to get done.

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