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Understanding the importance of decision-making
Identifying biases that affect decision-making
Analyzing the potential outcomes of a decision
Tesler’s law of the conservation of complexity
"The total complexity of a system is a constant. If you make a user’s interaction with a system simpler, the complexity behind the scenes increases."
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The conservation of complexity
To do a difficult thing in the simplest way, we need a lot of options. When looking an any set of tools for a task, such as a digital photo editing program, a novice will see complexity. A professional sees a range of different tools, each of which is easy to use. They know h...
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Every functionality requires control
The more complex something is, the more controls it needs, whether visible or invisible to the user.
- From the user's view, products and services are automated. If you stay at an expensive hotel, your room is always as you want it. The staff handles the complexity beh...
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Conceptual models
A conceptual model is the underlying belief structure about how something works.
For example, on many computers, the process of dragging and dropping files into a folder seems simple because people already understand physical files and folders. But understanding it is...
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Wanting a simpler life
When we desire a simpler life, we normally mean we want products and services to have fewer steps, fewer controls, fewer options, less to consider. But we also want all the features and capabilities. These two ideas are often at odds.
Life can be really complicated. We fac...
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Lessons from the conservation of complexity
- How simple something looks is not a reflection of how simple it is to use. If complexity is a constant, then there are trade-offs.
- Things don't always need to be very simple for users. When a product or service is too simple, users can feel robbed of control. We should recognize th...
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The conservation of complexity
To do a difficult thing in the simplest way, we need a lot of options. When looking an any set of tools for a task, such as a digital photo editing program, a novice will see complexity. A professional sees a range of different tools, each of which is easy to use. They know h...
The Law of Conservation Energy
According to the law of conservation of energy, the total energy of a system remains constant through the energy that may change into another form.
Moreover, energy is something that cannot be created not destroyed, it simply is. Energy can change forms and is als...
Lessons from the conservation of complexity
- How simple something looks is not a reflection of how simple it is to use. If complexity is a constant, then there are trade-offs.
- Things don't always need to be very simple for users. When a product or service is too simple, users can feel robbed of control. We should recognize th...
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