Complexity

Just a quick com­bined CMF2005-disclaimer and per­sonal opin­ion on complexity.

I missed yesterday’s pro­gram because I was demo­ing an umbraco web­site I made. That’s the dis­claimer part (as in “I hang with the umbraco crew”) — and an excel­lent oppur­tu­nity to sec­ond Hartvig’s take on the com­plex­ity as the new black notion.

I basi­cally did the “Write, Pre­view, Pub­lish” walk­through, pointed to spe­cial mod­i­fi­ca­tions made to their imple­men­ta­tion. And that was it. They wanted to use their web­site as a com­mu­ni­ca­tion plat­form and liked the sim­ple inter­face where some­one already had made a deci­sion not to bloat every­thing with but­tons and funky func­tion­al­ity noone’s using (or should be using). They didn’t have a list of prob­lems that needed solv­ing, func­tion­al­ity that could be “nice to have”, ambi­tious plans to take over the world by push­ing but­tons. Their focus was on writ­ing and select­ing con­tent. Which is why I think they’ll walk away with their task com­pleted and their mind clear.