A great story about simplicity from Akio Morita, the instigator of the Walkman project at Sony: Engineers had the technology to add the recording function to the Walkman and it would’ve cost only 50 cents to a dollar per unit. Morita decided against it. He wanted the device to have one function, which it performs very well. Walkman should only play high-quality music to avoid ambiguity. More features confuse people about their use and where to start. Less is more.
A great story about simplicity from Akio Morita, the instigator of the Walkman project at Sony:
Engineers had the technology to add the recording function to the Walkman and it would’ve cost only 50 cents to a dollar per unit. Morita decided against it. He wanted the device to have one function, which it performs very well. Walkman should only play
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It was better to start with something minimalist, and then let priorities reveal themselves as users ran into trouble.
I'm very big on radically simplifying products by removing features that don't carry their own weight.