It answers the question “why does this have to be so complicated?”, which I have found to be useful in countless numbers of UI discussions.
“We need it to do this, that, and this other thing, but in an uncomplicated way.”
Well, it can’t be less complicated than any one of those things then.
https://medium.com/kubo/teslers-law-designing-for-inevitable...
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(cybernetics)#Law_of_r...>
There's also Larry Wall's "Waterbed Theory", effectively that complexity cannot be squashed down: it will out. Though I suspect this post-dates Tesler.
<https://nick.groenen.me/people/larry-wall/>
It answers the question “why does this have to be so complicated?”, which I have found to be useful in countless numbers of UI discussions.
“We need it to do this, that, and this other thing, but in an uncomplicated way.”
Well, it can’t be less complicated than any one of those things then.
https://medium.com/kubo/teslers-law-designing-for-inevitable...