http://refactr.com/blog/2006/08/everything-was-better-when-everything-was-worse/ informs on and evangelizes best practices of using <a href="http://refactr.com/the-agile-manifesto/">agile methods</a> when designing and developing what are currently being called “Web 2.0” products and applications. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:02:29 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://refactr.com/blog/2006/08/everything-was-better-when-everything-was-worse/comment-page-1/#comment-768 refactr Blog Archive » Giving users what they need, not what they want. Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:51:17 +0000 http://refactr.com/2006/08/21/everything-was-better-when-everything-was-worse/#comment-768 [...] These graphs from the post succinctly illustrate a point that is often difficult to convey to people: user happiness dos not increase as their control over an application increases. It’s the paradox of choice as mentioned in an earlier Refactr post and also The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz “looks at how the overabundance of products today makes buying even toilet paper stressful. We shut down when we’re faced with too many choices, even when those choices are about relatively simple things.” [...] [...] These graphs from the post succinctly illustrate a point that is often difficult to convey to people: user happiness dos not increase as their control over an application increases. It’s the paradox of choice as mentioned in an earlier Refactr post and also The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz “looks at how the overabundance of products today makes buying even toilet paper stressful. We shut down when we’re faced with too many choices, even when those choices are about relatively simple things.” [...]

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