All Marked Up » apps http://allmarkedup.com/journal Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 22 Aug 2010 15:33:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Preferences Considered Harmful http://allmarkedup.com/journal/2009/09/preferences-considered-harmful/ http://allmarkedup.com/journal/2009/09/preferences-considered-harmful/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:59:17 +0000 Mark http://allmarkedup.com/journal/?p=325 Preferences Considered Harmful. (Another) great article by Lukas Mathis on avoiding unnecessary preferences in apps (he talks specifically about desktop applications, but his points are all equally applicable to web apps, of course).

This is something I always strive for – as a user, preferences are really not my thing, and I try and reflect that in the way I build web apps. Don’t dazzle your users with a huge array of options!

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