The Risk of Lazy Design

Stephen Crowley
1 min readSep 8, 2018

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The Conservation of Complexity, also known as Tesler’s Law, states:

Every application must have an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it.

This means low-effort, lazy design will result in complex products, which puts the onus on the user to understand how it works.

You should Google it to find out more.

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Stephen Crowley

Designer passionate about creating fun, enticing digital experiences in exchange for money.