If your UI simplicity winds up creating more work for the user then guess what it’s not.
— Stu Maschwitz (@5tu) September 15, 2018
Don’t name it what it is. Name it what they want to do with it.
— Stu Maschwitz (@5tu) March 17, 2017
I love simplicity, but I usually have to settle for power.
— Stu Maschwitz (@5tu) November 2, 2015
The enemy of minimal app design is the perfectly reasonable feature request.
— Stu Maschwitz (@5tu) May 13, 2015
The enemy of incremental app improvement is the long-time expert user.
— Stu Maschwitz (@5tu) May 13, 2015
Whenever you try to make a simpler User Experience by hiding what’s really happening, you pay the price in the long run in user confidence.
— Stu Maschwitz (@5tu) October 16, 2015
“Buttons” on a touchscreen are skeuomorphic, no matter what they look like. Everything after that is just haggling over price.
— Stu Maschwitz (@5tu) November 15, 2012
If you want to understand software, try fixing a small thing in your house.
— Stu Maschwitz (@5tu) January 31, 2016
Cherish the user who asks you not to implement a feature.
— Stu Maschwitz (@5tu) July 23, 2013
Hey @jnack: Users are accelerating toward laziness much faster than we developers can accelerate toward simplicity and elegance.
— Stu Maschwitz (@5tu) June 21, 2013
Don’t punish 99.9% of your rope customers trying to protect .1% from hanging themselves.
— Stu Maschwitz (@5tu) August 14, 2012