Death by a Thousand Buttons — from the Desk of van Schneider — Edition №268
Tobias van Schneidervanschneider.com
Death by a Thousand Buttons — from the Desk of van Schneider — Edition №268
Apps keep adding features, because, like it or not, new features get new attention and more attention sells more. If you keep adding features, your app becomes bloated, farty, buggy, and slow. Shiny features will distract, and eventually completely destroy the focus of the user and the focus of your app. Most successful apps are headed for the... See more
iA • Apple Design Award Finalist After 15 Years
the easiest thing to do in a product is add a feature. People new to design tend to see the world of product as a set of features to build more than an experience to balance, and they rush to add things until they paint themselves in a corner with an encumbered experience that lacks a cohesive purpose. Balancing and integrating takes a lot more... See more
Nick Punt • Learning Product Design
We have a core feature offering that is very strong. A small feature idea comes up that serves a subset of the market, but it isn’t too hard to do and it isn’t a bad thing, so we indulge. Repeat that thought process a hundred times and you have a cluttered UI, a large team, a slow product, and no obvious path forward.
Andrew Bosworth • Focus
