🔥 New post: Forget “show, don’t tell”. Engage, don’t show!

I recently gave a well received API Design talk at #dotjs. One of its points was that good UIs (and thus, APIs) have a smooth UI complexity to Use case complexity curve. Incremental user effort results in incremental value; at no point going a little further requires a disproportionate chunk of work.

Observing my daughter’s piano lesson today made me realize this principle extends to education […]

Read more: https://lea.verou.me/blog/2024/engage-dont-show/

Forget “show, don’t tell”. Engage, don’t show! • Lea Verou