Managing UI Complexity

A post dealing with the complexity of interface design and its effectiveness, like much design, the process of reduction.

Progressive disclosure is the most popular means of managing complexity. The idea is that clutter and cognitive overhead can be reduced by hiding less frequently used elements behind some avenue of accessing those elements, like a mouse click or a keyboard shortcut.

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Published:: 08.12.09 / 8am

Category:: UI / Usability

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Lee Pilmore is a web designer living and working from Leicester in the UK and is senior designer for Jadu. A smashing bunch of talented folk who create Content Management Systems. Among other things.

With a mixture of XHTML, CSS and CMS he is a web standards advocate and practitioner, helping make the path to shared and equal web enlightenment wider and smoother.

He studied fine art, then graphic design, animation and video production before moving into the web, where he’s now been for around eight years.

This hackneyed site is a place for him to post articles, tutorials and comments on stuff that he needs assistance remembering and that help, educate and inspire him.

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Anything published on this blog is in no way the views of my employer, Jadu.

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