Let me preface with this: this is over-simplified for someone just getting started with git, who does not have the time to learn all the intricacies of git, and covers the most common workflow I’ve encountered, that is:
- download code from a remote repository
- make changes
- commit and send the changes back
- get the latest from that remote repository
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Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication
As Saint Exupery said,
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
And Joshua Porter adds:
Simplicity is treading a line: knowing what to keep and what to throw away. It comes across as magic when it works, because none of the complexity is transferred to users, only simplicity.
Don’t listen to your users, watch them
While looking for something else, I found this gem sitting around: First Rule of Usability? Don’t Listen to Users written by Jakob Nielsen.
Even though this was written almost 5 years ago, the main thesis is very valid in this web 2.0 age.
Just Enough is More
To quote Milton Glaser: “Less is not necessarily more. Being a child of modernism I have heard this mantra all my life. Less is more. One morning upon awakening I realised that it was total nonsense, it is an absurd proposition and also fairly meaningless. But it sounds great because it contains within it a paradox that is resistant to understanding. But it simply does not obtain when you think about the visual of the history of the world. If you look at a Persian rug, you cannot say that less is more because you realise that every part of that rug, every change of colour, every shift in form is absolutely essential for its aesthetic success. You cannot prove to me that a solid blue rug is in any way superior. That also goes for the work of Gaudi, Persian miniatures, art nouveau and everything else. However, I have an alternative to the proposition that I believe is more appropriate. ’Just enough is more.’”. Emphasis mine.
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