There’s a concept in design that I forget the name of and too lazy to look it up - but the idea is that you don’t want to overwhelm people with too many choices. More choices = more time and effort to make a decision. And once you repeat this mistake throughout your app, you’re creating unnecessary friction and stress.
The paradox of choice is I believe the title of a TED talk on this subject and Dan Airly god help me I misspelled his name for sure, wrote a book on this.
Ask not what you can show to your users, but what you can hide and still allow for good discovery.
#nostrdesign
Predictably Irrational is the name of the book
100% the same applies to the catering industry. I've managed restaurants who thought that having almost 100 dishes on their menu is something people want because they want to "have a choice". Needless to say that 100 dishes automatically leads to selling frozen garbage and if you get busy the kitchen will "lose the floor" aka wont be able to keep up.
#AnalysisParalysis from a users perspective
Ideally the design gives a perfect mental map to the user about how they should use your tool, so a user doesn't need to consciously think about anything
in architecture (modernism) we say "less is more" 🤙
3-5 options in a menu and the user should be able to finish what they are doing in no more than 3 steps. Otherwise users will stop using your app overtime.
Hicks Law. While I love amethyst it falls into this. ServiceNow is another curent day example outside of this eco that is bane of my day. Managing cognitve load should be a UX goal for complex and open sysyems.
Restaurant menus are an incredible example of this.
People don’t want more choices. People want more confidence in their choices.
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