{"id":5821,"date":"2018-11-30T02:58:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T13:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=5821"},"modified":"2018-11-30T03:08:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T14:08:22","slug":"reductionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/reductionism\/","title":{"rendered":"Reductionism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reducing to the bare essentials.<\/p>\n<p>What (and only) what is required, at the bare minimum.<\/p>\n<p>When we built Nudge we went through this process, stripping away anything that wasn&#8217;t essential to the product.<\/p>\n<p>How we got there was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Phase 1, we reduced our rough version to the bare basics.<\/li>\n<li>Phase 2, we then dramatically expanded out the functionality we needed.<\/li>\n<li>Phase 3, we then used an existing library to display all of this functionality (it was terrible).<\/li>\n<li>Phase 4, we then dramatically reduced, removed colours, layers, buttons, menus, just to the absolute bare minimum.<\/li>\n<li>Phase 5, iterate and continue to refine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This helped make the product distinctive and create an air of simplicity &#8211; for a product that is data centric, a great outcome.<\/p>\n<p>As we grow though, there is always the tendency to creep. Why don&#8217;t we sneak this in here, or maybe we just put this in this menu. Complexity sneaks up on you.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s ok, as long as we keep our commitment to reducing. For some periods of time we&#8217;ll be off but we&#8217;ll mostly be on track.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like any project it takes commitment, discipline and focus.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s the fun part of the journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reducing to the bare essentials. What (and only) what is required, at the bare minimum. When we built Nudge we went through this process, stripping away anything that wasn&#8217;t essential to the product. How we got there was: Phase 1, we reduced our rough version to the bare basics. Phase 2, we then dramatically expanded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1467],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5821"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5827,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821\/revisions\/5827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}