Addition By Subtraction

I still think saying no is important. In that vein, here’s something I shipped by removing functionality (and I think my site is better for it). For the longest time on my icon gallery sites, you could view a list of icons in four pixel dimensions: 56×56 128×128 256×256 512×512 Each of these sizes could be accessed via a control on the website. This has been true for years on my site, whether it’s the current site: Or an older version of the site: By default, I loaded the 128-pixel version of the icons. But if you wanted to see other sizes, you could. However, the more I used the site myself the more I thought, “Four options is too many”. When it comes to choice, what I really wanted was: Default Smaller Bigger (Plus three is always a good number, unless you have a reason otherwise). So I removed the big 512 option. If I want to study an icon at that size and detail, I click through to the icon’s detail page. Now there are three options for list views: 56, 128, and 256. Small (great…

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