POWER VS USABILITY R (statistics ) and UNIX are extremely POWERFUL. —and— Wu

POWER VS USABILITY

R (statistics ) and UNIX are extremely POWERFUL.

—and—

Wunderlist and iOS are extremely USABLE.

There is always a tradeoff between usability and power.

My observation over time is that people prefer to use tools that match the complexity then share the work products rather than general purpose tools.

If you could start instances of word with different capabilities all of which produce word documents then I suspect people would prefer that too to one that includes all the features available to them.

In other words, the user interface should reflect the type of document you write.

I use TextEdit, TextWrangler, Word, Evernote, Scrivener, and finally WordPress as a Wordprocessor. And I understand that the future looks more like WordPress and less like the others.