{"id":30,"date":"2008-04-25T09:36:46","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T14:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/25\/simple-can-be-faster-then-powerful\/"},"modified":"2008-04-25T09:36:47","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T14:36:47","slug":"simple-can-be-faster-then-powerful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/25\/simple-can-be-faster-then-powerful\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Can be Faster then Powerful"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230;Judy Olson and Erik Nilsen wrote a classic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leaonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1207\/s15327051hci0304_1\">paper<\/a> comparing two user interfaces for large data tables. One interface offered many more features for table manipulation and each feature decreased task-performance time in specific circumstances. The other design lacked these optimized features and was thus slower to operate under the specific conditions addressed by the first design&#8217;s special features.<\/p>\n<p>So, which of these two designs was faster to use? The one with the fewest features. For each operation, the planning time was <strong>2.9 seconds<\/strong> in the stripped-down design and <strong>4.6 seconds<\/strong> in the feature-rich design. <strong>With more choices, it takes more time to make a decision<\/strong> on which one to use. The extra 1.7 seconds required to consider the richer feature set consumed more time than users saved by executing faster operations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.useit.com\/alertbox\/screen-productivity.html\">Jakob Nielsen<\/a>, the day before my birthday, 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Judy Olson and Erik Nilsen wrote a classic paper comparing two user interfaces for large data tables. One interface offered many more features for table manipulation and each feature decreased task-performance time in specific circumstances. The other design lacked these optimized features and was thus slower to operate under the specific conditions addressed by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-usability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}