We do not need to discuss the perfect user experience and simple design, not the important question, because simplicity does not mean that the product experience is imperfect. Now basically is a concise for the beauty of the era, and in fact, the ease of use also proves that for users, simple design more in line with the characteristics of a quality product, but please note that this does not mean that the design is "simple."
The simplicity of design is based on the "design" to achieve the hidden complex role.
Most of the time, designers just put the most ease of presenting to the user, and the complexity as much as possible to integrate, as if you never know when using the iphone, the inside and its complex hardware and software design is what, you just responsible for the cheerful use of it.
Each product is born with the perfect user experience as the ultimate goal.
The example of this password is a bit blurry. But I prefer to throw as few choices as possible to the user in the process of interacting with the user (under the circumstances that can be truncated). So, in the password back on the way, up to keep the mailbox, mobile phone two functions just fine. Similar to the other "password protection questions", "account appeal" are enough to chicken.
The concept of a simple product can be divided into three types:
Convenient management, convenient design, easy to use.
They correspond to the "simple" concept of the people in turn: managers, designers, users
The concept of "easy to use" is included in the perfect user experience. This is why the value of a similar product is so poor. The company that attaches great importance to the user experience will spend a lot of manpower and resources to construct a very seemingly complex product design chain, for the display in front of users, is the most streamlined and most humane.
The perfect user experience does not conflict with simple product design, both of which are equally important, but the examples you cite don't seem to match. For example, the mailbox and mobile phone is not complicated but fast, can choose according to their own situation. At the same time, because of different national conditions, foreign mailbox penetration is relatively high, and the domestic is different, but the mobile phone is more popular, the two collocation can let those who are not good at using the mailbox quickly find their password.
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