Less is more—a compilation

Choosing to do less, and creating a better offering because of it, is a great approach to design and a great approach to business. It allows you to focus on a particular customer, place, process, or even a time of day. One of the great benefits is it also help you know who, what, or when else to ignore.

Doing less with more allows for a tighter scope, something we at Adaptive Path call features stinginess. This scope focus allows more time to get the key interactions right, so you can concentrate on building a platform for future growth.

To better understand this approach, I’ve started to catalog examples to see where it leads me:

Palm Pilot kept it to the features that would fit in your shirt pocket. The new 007 movie skipped the cool toys and so had to focus on a great story The Ameriprise Dreambook left numbers out of financial planning. Quicksilver takes the MacOS back to the best parts of command-line UI MeasureMap focused on the analytics that only bloggers need, removing complexity Muji provides quality goods with no brand (or, well, little brand)

Have any other suggestions?