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Feature Bloat: Connected Cars and the Inverted U

Less is much more than the sum of its parts, as long as you execute the hell out of that less

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Enterprise IT: the complexity-simplicity tradeoff

It takes management time to save employees time and managers are simply not prepared to make that sacrifice.

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Traffic as metaphor for UX design

Five of my favourite traffic based metaphors for certain aspects of experience design

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The simple is not always best, but the best is always simple

Simplicity in design is always necessary, but not at the expense of usability and purpose.

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Content Strategy Interaction Design

Web Design is 95% Typography

Oliver Reichenstein reminding us that most of many web user interface’s is text and typography

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Collaboration

Featuritis in enterprise software selection

Gerry McGovern on why organisations buy bloated enterprise software

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Content Strategy Interaction Design

Content first, clutter culled

I have never seen a widget that’s better than white space.

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UX

Minimum Viable Product Hack

A simple example of a minimum viable product hack in an opticians

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Content Strategy Interaction Design

Cost of adding content, features

Every piece of content you add makes it that bit harder to navigate your website.

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Banning general content page templates

An elegant design solution for governing exponential growth of junk content.