It's not quite research, but John Maeda has a great book "The Laws of Simplicity" where he discusses this in the first "law", Reduce.
He has an acronym for accomplishing this, SHE: Shrink, Hide, Embody. So hiding functionality has a certain value in his opinion, but only if it's done thoughtfully and if it doesn't prevent basics tasks from being done. http://lawsofsimplicity.com/?cat=5&order=ASC I thought it was a very enlightening book. I recommend reading it. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=49270 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
