Chapter 4
Less Is More
Keywords
Risk, genre, fundamental interactions, simple, seamless
Everything you always wanted in a beer and less.
—Light beer advertising slogan
Small is beautiful.
—E. F. Schumacher
Description
Start simple and look for every opportunity to build on simple interactions to support more complex tasks.
Application to NUI
With each new generation of interfaces, developers and designers are faced with a challenge—building applications that exploit the advantages that the new interface offers. A risk in building these new applications is that the designers and developers rely on concepts and approaches that worked in the past. In the most extreme case, the unintended result is that the new application is merely a transcription ...
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