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"However much UX folks like to deny it, most products that users use again and again have a certain amount of complexity and a learning curve"

Huh? Who denies this??

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There is a trend in UX towards products so simple (by cutting features) that any user can immediately instantly pick it up without a learning curve.

It's what prompted Don Norman to write the article around 2007 titled "Simplicity is not the Answer" - http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/simplicity_is_not_th.html (quoted in the blog post) and a book "Living with Complexity" - http://www.jnd.org/books/living-with-complexity.html

These people misunderstand the principle at its basis. Good design isn't about stripping away features, it's about making products simple to use. Those sound like the same thing to some people, but they're not.

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