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Daniel Burka

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Birthday: December 17, 1978

Birthplace: Canada

Nationality: Canada

Total quotes: 2

“Overflow menus seem like the perfect solution. Designers can ‘take away’ complexity and leave just the really important bits. You can quickly and easily create a clean looking user interface. The trouble with overflow menus is that you didn’t actually take anything away, you just obnoxiously obfuscated it.”

— Daniel Burka, Stop the overuse of overflow menus

Tagged: Design, Development, User Experience

“Back in 1957, a guy named C. Northcote Parkinson observed that people often give disproportionate focus to trivial projects at work. For instance, Parkinson observed a team that was creating a nuclear power plant. During the planning stages, a big debate broke out about the design of the shed where employees would park their bicycles. Instead of arguing about the details of power mechanisms, cooling systems, or waste fuel storage, it seemed like everyone’s focus was on what material should be used for the bike shed roof.”

— Daniel Burka, A designer’s guide to Parkinson’s Law of Triviality

Tagged: Product Design, Parkinson’s Law of Triviality

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