As I’m doing research for a paper for my Library Planning, Marketing, & Assessment course, I am reminded of what I learned in my Human Interaction with Computers course: simplicity in design is best.

Just like the interface on an Apple computer, simplification of processes provides a friendlier, more enjoyable user experience: things are easy to accomplish, there is a greater focus of energy on creation of content (rather than how to use the tool to do the task), and a state of “flow” is quickly reached.

I wish more designers of interfaces would just simplify, simplify, simplify.