At the Adaptive Path UXi conference, they spoke almost specifically about this - the fact that new webapps are coming out that try to give 20% of the functionality that 80% of the users will use instead of being everything for everybody. They used Writely as an example (which has since been bought up by Google) to show that people usually only need a subset of what is offered in Microsoft Word.
The presentation made a good point that while those extra features are interesting and even useful in some situations, many people will never use them and have trouble finding what they DO need amidst the broad choices offered. I for one think that the "Less is More" mentality makes a lot of sense, because the interfaces get so complicated that even veteran users get lost going for features that would be somewhere around 26-50 on the 'most used' list. -- Marty > Probably unsurprisingly, these numbers appear to show some kind of "Pareto principle" usage ("20 % of the application commands are used in 80 % of the time"). Does your experience support this? > > > [1] > http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/02/most-frequently-used-features > -in.html > > -- > Jens Meiert > http://meiert.com/en/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help