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The hidden cost of settings

January 12, 2015 By editor

I was chatting to Sean Brady of Prism Decision Systems last week. He was using the Modern UI version of Skype on his new laptop and bemoaning the fact that software can be too minimalist. There's a recent trend for software to have minimal options. Design decisions are made for the users by the developers. iA Writer, a word processing application, typifies the genre. It famously doesn't allow … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Software Tagged With: UX

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