Category: 📁 Tech Laws

Designing software is harder than hardware because changing it is easier.

Designing simple and easy to use hardware is hard because changing it is harder, but designing simple and easy to use software is harder because changing it is easier.

Designing usable software is hard because not using standards is easy.

Designing simple, consistent, and easy to use software is hard because carelessly changing or not using simple, consistent, and easy to use layouts and standards for software is easy.

Prefer labelling items using short or abbreviated words with 4-6 letters and 1-2 syllables.

Organize items into groups of exactly 2, 4, or 6 objects using separators or space.

November, 2014