Less is more, better, safer, simpler, faster
Evan's talk was one that I found to be particularly interesting. He asked the crowd to think about what new things could be created by stripping down and simplifying existing products, as opposed to building more feature rich ones. Twitter
being the perfect example of this idea. A blogging platform with pretty much every useful feature removed!
The above quote was pulled from David Lenehan's LeWeb3 Conference Report. I appreciate the sentiment. Things move too quickly today to waste time trying to work out the perfect user experience. I believe it's a conceit to think that you can. As many have pointed out, we humans are lousy at forecasting -- at least at predicting specifics -- and just as bad at guessing how we're going to feel about our predictions whenever they do play out as expected.
Are there exceptions? I think so. Next generation platform plays, for instance, might fit the bill.