Jeffrey Veen hat das Talent, genau das auszudrücken, was ich immer schon gedacht habe: Be Less Specific über die Kunst, den Benutzer nicht mit überdetaillierten Einstellungen zu belasten, sondern ein Interface zu vereinfachen – eine Forcing Function:

Take the stairs in a building with a basement, and you’ll likely notice a gate in the stairwell when you reach the ground floor. This is called a “forcing function” — a physical impediment to jolt users out of their routine and ensure appropriate behavior. In this case, the relatively infrequent annoyance of opening the gate is offset by keeping panicked people out of the basement when the building is on fire. An extreme example, sure, but there are lessons to be learned for interface in digital products. Often, we can and should constrain user behavior to not just help them avoid errors, but make errors impossible.