{"id":2118,"date":"2005-09-21T11:58:55","date_gmt":"2005-09-21T19:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/careful-with-thosefeatures"},"modified":"2024-02-28T17:57:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T01:57:37","slug":"careful-with-thosefeatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/careful-with-thosefeatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Careful With Those Features!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Jobs had a chat with the media yesterday, and the discussion was well-covered by <a href=\"http:\/\/macworld.com\/news\/2005\/09\/20\/jobsparis\/index.php\">a Macworld article<\/a>. When asked about adding a radio receiver to the iPod, Jobs responded:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are very careful about what features we add because we can&#8217;t take them away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a critical observation. Most of my favorite software has just enough features to get by, usually fewer obvious features than its competitors. You might call it \u201csimplicity.\u201d In the rush to justify a \u201cVersion 8.0 upgrade,\u201d it\u2019s easy to forget about simplicity.<\/p>\n<p>When you find yourself designing anything \u2013 software, hardware, a website, whatever \u2013 never underestimate the value of \u201cless features.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Most of my favorite software has just enough features to get by, usually fewer obvious features than its competitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[82],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/09\/firefighter-ecologist-working-in-field-with-wildfi-2023-11-27-05-02-11-utc-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27242,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions\/27242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}