Developers, users, and things that just work without bloat

Developers, users, and things that just work without bloat

Posted Jan 5, 2006 14:41 UTC (Thu) by utoddl (subscriber, #1232)
In reply to: Nautilus again by hingo
Parent article: An Evening with Jeff Waugh (Linux Journal)

The "Amiga User Interface Style Guide" (or some name similar to that; remember the Amiga?) had sage advice along these lines:

Don't create user options simply because you couldn't make a design decision.

Maybe that's how they achieved great multitasking in <1Mb.

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