Blog 4

When designing an application, it is important to listen to your users, but you must be careful about how you go about using the suggestions and feedback you are given. Like Hoekman previously mentioned, people will often ask for features that they won't really ever use, perhaps just because it seems like a cool idea. As a designer you need to be able to differentiate between the core features that make a successful application and the flashy, excess features that most, if not all users won't care about or even notice.

In project 2, much of what we did was removing unnecessary buttons and rearranging what was left. But it could be possible to remove some of buttons for very specific functions that may not be used as often.