#computing #product #design #programming # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought # [[Via Negativa|Less is more]] ## [[Programming]] >When you can write software with fewer programmers, it saves you more than money. As [[Frederick P. Brooks - Mythical Man-Month_ Essays on Software Engineering-Addison-Wesley Professional|Fred Brooks]] pointed out in The Mythical Man-Month, adding people to a project tends to slow it down. >~ [[Paul Graham]] ## [[Product design|Design]] & UI >Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication >~ [[Steve Jobs]] Imagine you are a hunter gatherer facing a tiger which is about to kill all your family. There is a massive axe in front of you. In another parallel [[Quantum level three multiverse|quantum multiverse]], instead, there is an axe, a sword, a hammer, etc. In which multiverse you are more likely to focus on the task of trying to kill this tiger? First? Does the bunch of weapons in the second would confuse you rather than help you? I believe so. What if there was some tools complementary to the axe, like an armour protecting you from tiger attacks? Would it help you or make you lose time trying to put it on? [[Via Negativa|Less is more]] [[Steve Jobs]] has shown us that **less is more** in product design too. [[Reducing friction in human machine interfaces]] needs to reduce unnecessary [[Information|information]] from the interface. Apple [[Never write human machine interface documentation]]. My software dream: empty UI, maybe a search bar, natural language powered, but better, voice powered, or [[Brain computer interface|brain powered]]. ### Modern less is more - [[Command palette is the new human-machine interface]] - Full search - [[Natural Language Processing]] powered UI - Conversational AI (no garbage chatbot, [[Seeker search augmented conversational bot]]) - Computer interface like what hunter gatherer would interact with a mammoth - [[Augmented reality]] - Less [[Philosophy/Rationality/Models/Noise|noise]] ![[Screen Recording 2022-06-12 at 09.26.15.gif]] # Links [[Via Negativa]] [[Business/Entrepreneurship/Less is more]] [[Computing/Intelligence/Machine Learning/Less is more]].