Summer School 2006
After Ivrea, Roma, Split and Timisoara the 5th Convivio Summer School came to Edinburgh, August 14th-25th.
The theme this year was: "Technology, Enjoying or Enduring it? Visions, Boundaries and Transformations in Extending or Replacing Human Capacities."
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Don Norman on simplicity.
In “Simplicity Is Highly Overrated” Don Norman stirs controversy by turning a critical eye onto the real value of simplicity:
“‘We want simplicity’ cry the people befuddled by all the features of their latest whatever. Do they really mean it? No.
Features win over simplicity, even when people realize that it is accompanied by more complexity.
You do it too, I bet. Haven’t you ever compared two products side by side, comparing the features of each, preferring the one that did more?
Why shame on you, you are behaving, well, behaving like a normal person.
Why do (companies) deliberately build things that confuse the people who use them?
Answer: Because the people want the features. Because simplicity is a myth whose time has past, if it ever existed.
Yes, we want simplicity, but we don’t want to give up any of those cool features.
Simplicity is highly overrated.“
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