Software Made Simple

By virtue of having software made simple, you gain a few efficiencies. Perhaps most importantly is the ability to release your software quickly. Frequent updates to software, particular when it is in the early stages are a great way to get user feedback, show your commitment and get people excited.

A common way to keep working efficiently on core features (and not bloated features that not everyone needs) is to build a way to allow your users to configure the software to meet their needs. This can range from simple preferences that the user can tweak to more advanced configuration files and plugin support.

Things that are simple are:

• Used more
• More useful
• More fun
• Bring you more customers
• Get you more sales

So you can go on more vacations!

Less what?

• Less stress for you
• Less stress for your users
• Less code to write, which means less bugs
• Less features, but the right ones
• Less complexity
• Less buttons

But, believe it or not, it’s a lot more work to do less. As the famous quote from Blaise Pascal says: “This letter is very long because I had no time to make it short.”