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Common sense would dictate that if given a list of choices you would choose the one that is most important to you, when in reality humans usually choose the one that is easiest for them to understand and evaluate. When it comes to politicians how often do the voters pick the guy with the better political record versus them picking the guy they have heard of before or has given them a simple concept to understand?
Do you think most people realize there are benefits to driving a manual transmission car over an automatic? Do you think they care? Automatic is easier to pick up so why bother with any other choice? How often do we stay in relationships that we shouldn't simply because it's easier to just deal with it than face the repercussions of having to confront the person?
Have you ever been to In & Out Burger? I heard great stories about this place and their mythical burgers and fries. The catch behind this place is that they have a very limited menu. You order a Double Double, cheeseburger or hamburger. You can add fries, milkshake and beverage to that if you wish. That's all of your options. Now I have been there and tasted their food and it's good, but it is not much different than Wendy's. The appeal of the place is that your choices are limited. It's easy to order there because you don't have to decide which type of chicken sandwich you feel is the best option for you. In & Out makes the fast food experience easy for you. Having it your way is not the way we want.
Woot.com is an online store with a twist. Instead of browsing through hundreds or thousands of items you are offered only one item a day. If you like it you buy it and if you don't you wait till tomorrow to see what is going to show up. The site is successful and yet the logic of it all seems backwards. However, if I'm running a store does it matter if I'm selling 100 units of 1 item or 100 different items 1 unit at a time? Woot makes the shopping experience easy by making our choice simply yes or no.
How many of your friends chose to buy a computer for their home simply because they use the same one at work? Movie gets bad ratings? Don't go see it because the decision is made for us. Who cares about reading its summary? Our selections don't have to be the best choices, they just have to be ones that we are okay with.
How often do you come across a site that offers you better features than their competitors, but they aren't as easy to use. There is no reason to switch over to a service that is harder to use even if they have more features. If the features aren't there to make my life easier what good does the service do me?
Back when image hosting was cool, the sites that won were the ones that allowed you to upload an image without having to register or login. You simply uploaded your image and you were done. That doesn't mean sites like Flickr couldn't thrive, but they had to work much harder to get users and show that going through the hassle of registering was worth it.
If somehow you can make the easiest product and best product in the industry, you have yourself a winner. You have to consider how many choices we are given daily so it's in your best interest to limit the ones your customers have to make because there is a good chance it isn't the most important decision of the day for them.
What this means is that the design that is easiest to evaluate will usually win. Make your copy straight to the point. Don't waste your time on graphics that don't drive the point home. Funny t-shirts and bumper stickers are effective because they are easy to evaluate. I have a hard enough time picking my underwear in the morning, don't make me try to decide which of the 250 default avatars I should use.
JadTheInformer wrote this Severity: Warning
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I love In-N-Out! I had their burger yesterday.
amberweinberg wrote this Severity: Warning
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Does it mean we as a society are dumber for not even trying something that's a little bit more difficult? Or are we now just to busy to have the time to try it?
Scrivs wrote this Severity: Warning
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I think if we need to invest time into learning or deciding something we will if the easier choice doesn't make sense. People usually take their time in selecting colleges, but then again others just say they like the football team and go there.
How often do we argue back and forth about lunch or dinner because neither person wants to decide?
CraftyDevon wrote this Severity: Warning
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The "what are we going to eat today" game is very popular in my family. Once on vacation in Boston, we walked for 2 hours in the cold, only to decide on effin Burger King.
Scrivs, you make a excellent point in your article, and I for one, sometimes want easy. We have a chain similar to In & Out called Five Guys Burgers and Fries (they are extremely popular and yummy), their menu is exactly the same, but they do have Grilled Cheese and Hot Dogs as well. I enjoy going there because I not only enjoy the food, but I already know what I want, it allows me to simply enjoy the meal with minimal worry. Which is exactly what I want people to think of my future applications and websites, when they see that I've made it, they'll know it's quick to pick up, easy to navigate, and rich in features.
I'd also like to point out that I think that the vast multitude of choices presented to aspiring nerds such as myself can actually put a bit of a damper on our education. When you've got 50 different blogs telling you how to do X a certain way, and you're just starting out, it can get rather scary. The solution of course would be to simply pick one, and see how it works, and evolve your own method over time, that's why I enjoy reading actual books. I can't click off to another article, my full concentration is needed, and distractions are minimal.
In today's day and time, simplicity is what people want in my mind. In a world as busy and hectic as ours can be, comfort can be found in simple choices with good results.
Some may say this is going to make us dumber, and lazy. Perhaps, but I don't think so. Daring Fireball is a perfect example; it's easy to use, but you actually have to dig into the content.
Good job once again Scrivs, will you marry me?
kramer wrote this Severity: Warning
Message: strtotime(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead
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Maybe in-n-out is a bad example. I'm not from the west coast but i love their food. I don't think it's necessarily because their menu is simple (how dare you compare them to wendys'!). Their simplicity is only skin deep if you start using the secret menu. That's the beauty of it, it can be simple or it can be more complex. It's up to the user (consumer).
thedude wrote this Severity: Warning
Message: strtotime(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead
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Perhaps it's a US thing? Automatic cars? We hate them in the UK!
DanRitz wrote this Severity: Warning
Message: strtotime(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead
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When it's about something I care about I want to jump in and learn all the little details. When it's about fixing the engine of my car I really don't give a #$^*.
I'm usually drawn to simple solutions because I want to choose where I spend my mental energy. Ordering fast food is not one of those situations--I didn't go there to think for 10 minutes...
A nice restaurant where I'll be spending a few hours is worth the energy.
I think it depends on the context and the audience.
N.V. wrote this Severity: Warning
Message: strtotime(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead
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Another great article. I think a lot of designers has problem with wanthing to do great and beautiful and georgeous design and they made it, but then users don't like it because it's too much for them. Been there, done that. Simple and easier is still the best, everywhere.
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Severity: Warning
Message: strtotime(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead
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Severity: Warning
Message: strtotime(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead
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Severity: Warning
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Severity: Warning
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Severity: Warning
Message: strtotime(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead
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Severity: Warning
Message: strtotime(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead
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Severity: Warning
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Severity: Warning
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Severity: Warning
Message: strtotime(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead
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Severity: Warning
Message: strtotime(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead
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Severity: Warning
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Severity: Warning
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Message: strtotime(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead
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I should note that In & Out has a secret menu.