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September 25, 2006
The power of Simplicity
The idea of this article “The laws of simplicity” perfectly work on my personal experience on IM software usage in Taiwan. ICQ, my first IM software which was hot during my high school life, became most popular IM with the blossom of internet age; it got simple interface, strong function and stable quality.
After a couple years, it updated several times and got more complex function and I feel more confuse when more unnecessary function add into it. Not only me but the majority of users stopped using it and start to use MSN messenger just because the same reason what we use ICQ before, SIMPLE and STABLE.
Now, MSN live version still keep adding lots function into it, but I can tell they still trying to make it easy to use although it costs more and more memory. However, new extremely simple IM software, Google talk, by the company who knows power of simplicity most was start to impact this area. Therefore, I am still keeping my eyes on the trend, develop and design of IM software. It’s great example to show the power of simplicity.
Posted by Hung Glenn at September 25, 2006 12:10 AM