Sorting and choosing

one of the most central tradeoffs is between sorting and searching. The

But when designing an interface for finding a note in a small pile of personal notes, or building an app to organize a small team’s working documents, most of the “finding stuff” interface ideas are in play. It’s in these situations where I want to make the argument:  prefer interfaces that let the user incrementally move towards the right ans

Choosing wisely is difficult because it is counterintuitive. It is much easier to put a laundry list together of all the possible things you need to get done each day than it is to actually choose your one most important task and then master it.

Get the deeper pleasure of diving into one choice.